After Matthew's test, it looks like the messages are still pretty long
limiting each list to 50 elements. Perhaps I will decrease it further.

Jay

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's exactly how I implemented it earlier actually.
>
> Jay
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Carl Eastlund <carl.eastl...@gmail.com> 
> 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 <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> 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
>>> <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> 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 <j...@cs.byu.edu>
> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
> http://teammccarthy.org/jay
>
> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>



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Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://teammccarthy.org/jay

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