That's exactly how I implemented it earlier actually.

Jay

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Carl Eastlund <[email protected]> wrote:
> I suggest the alternate behavior of truncating each individual list of
> errors at, say, 50 or 100.  That way even if the message gets
> truncated, a person can see some errors to start at.  As is, with
> 4,000 errors, truncating at 500 lines will probably leave off several
> people's errors entirely.
>
> Carl Eastlund
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> DrDr will do that from now on.
>>
>> Who wants to break everything to test it?
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:38 PM, John Clements
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Messages like this one (excerpt pasted below) cause poor Apple Mail to 
>>> freak out and nearly collapse.  Opening three such messages caused the 
>>> application to become unresponsive for nearly five minutes.  The problem 
>>> seems to have to do with highlighting the links. I'm guessing either that 
>>> it's checking the links somehow, or using an n^2 algorithm to discover 
>>> them. I realize that this is more an indication of Apple Mail's 
>>> pathetic-ness than anything else, but I propose that drdr emails could be 
>>> truncated after the first 500 lines or so, with the full text on the web 
>>> site.
>>>
>>> john
>>>
>>>
>>>> DrDr has finished building revision 18567 after 4.12m.
>>>>
>>>> http://drdr.plt-scheme.org/18567/
>>>>
>>>> samth:
>>>> You are receiving this email because the DrDr test of revision 18567 
>>>> (which you committed) contained a NEW condition that may need inspecting.
>>>>       unclean
>>>>               
>>>> http://drdr.plt-scheme.org/18567/collects/typed-scheme/private/optimize.ss
>>>>               
>>>> http://drdr.plt-scheme.org/18567/collects/typed-scheme/types/type-table.ss
>>>>
>>>>       stderr
>>>>               
>>>> http://drdr.plt-scheme.org/18567/collects/typed-scheme/private/optimize.ss
>>>>               
>>>> http://drdr.plt-scheme.org/18567/collects/typed-scheme/types/type-table.ss
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> jacobm:
>>>> You are receiving this email because a file you are responsible for has a 
>>>> condition that may need inspecting.
>>>>       stderr:
>>>>               http://drdr.plt-scheme.org/18567/collects/planet/cachepath.ss
>>>>               http://drdr.plt-scheme.org/18567/collects/planet/config.ss
>>>>               http://drdr.plt-scheme.org/18567/collects/planet/info.ss
>>>>               
>>>> http://drdr.plt-scheme.org/18567/collects/planet/lang/reader.ss
> [snip]
>



-- 
Jay McCarthy <[email protected]>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://teammccarthy.org/jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
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