On Feb 18, 2017, at 17:55, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Saturday February 18 2017 17:27:45 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> The problem is that it only applies to cmake-generated makefiles and certain >> other one-off makefiles. But maybe a progress bar for some builds is better >> than no build progress bar ever. > > Yeah. It might work for any project that uses ninja, too. > >> For example, a port building with cmake and muniversal will go from 0% to >> 100% for the first architecture, then go from 0% to 100% for the second >> architecture; this detail should be hidden from the user behind a single >> combined progress bar. > > Or the muniversal portgroup could indicate what architecture it's building > for. I've already hacked my copy to do that because it also provides a > periodic wake-up call to ask myself if I really need that port installed > +universal. That's a different issue of course.
The muniversal portgroup used to say "building for i386", "building for x86_64", but this was removed, perhaps because it was thought to be confusing that some ports were printing this information and others weren't. >> The ticket for this issue is https://trac.macports.org/ticket/15939 . >> Clemens had some thoughts there for how it might be done for other ports >> whose build systems don't provide this information, but it would involve >> maintaining an online database. > > Ah yes. In my memory someone suggested using the number of files, but the > number of output lines would be a reasonable indicator if you know how many > there are. > > If we go for an approach that relies on ports (or portgroups) providing the > required information it should also be possible to provide the number of > expected lines that way, removing the need for an additional online database. > Something like > > {{{ > build.progress.expected_lines 1000 > }}} > > should be all that's needed to activate a progressbar mechanism based on this > generic principle. Nobody's going to remember to update that number when the update a port to a new version number.
