On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:00:36 +0400, "Yury G. Kudryashov" <[email protected]> wrote: > Eelco Dolstra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On 20/01/12 07:01, Michael Raskin wrote: > > > >>> Review the attached patch, please. > >> > >> Looks like a strict improvement.. > > > > I disagree. What useful information do most of these communicate? E.g. > > if a > > mkdir succeeds, why do I have to be informed about it? It's only > > interesting if it fails. > > > > Rob actually just suggested to make the unpackPhase less verbose, i.e. > > drop the > > "-v" flag in "tar" and "cp". But maybe that should be optional. > I prefer to see what happens during the build even if everything succeeds. > E.g., I don't like if a build script creates a directory behind the scenes > (i.e., without any output).
The compile itself is also rather noisy. Can we: a) generate as much output as possible b) catch the output and toggle it by category beyond stdout/stderr -- Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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