-----Original Message----- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:27 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: target progress bar
/* Jo Support wrote: > I've tried to develop a progress bar by myself, but I have some > concurrency trouble on the standard output with ant: it seems that > actually ant locks up the console output, so I can't print the > progress until the end of the target (quite unuseful...). more accurately, ant grabs the existing console and buffers every line of output by individual threads, then prints them on line endings. This lets different programs running under <parallel> present input that appears line-by-line with the specific program name prefixed. Many people find this useful. */ maybe use the <record> task and then some kind of tail on the logfile written by <record> ?! if not on linux/unix you could implement your own tail with ruby, java ... /* One problem with a progress bar is estimating time remaining; a build does not know how much work is left or how long it will take, so its hard to present. */ if not impossible at all Regards, Gilbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
