Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:35 pm, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 16:03, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [On in reply to any one message in particular, so not quoting anyone.] Probably the best way to do this is to provide a drop-in replacement for make

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:48:02 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: While the wrapper could tell something about what it's doing, based on the command-line, it can't tell you how many times gcc (for example) will be invoked in the future. A wrapper for make won't be able to do that either,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:16 am, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:48:02 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: While the wrapper could tell something about what it's doing, based on the command-line, it can't tell you how many times gcc (for example) will

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Sebastian Flothow
Am 2. Feb 2005 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb John Myers: It would keep the connection to the master open, and would also have a consistent PID (unlike a shell script, which, AFAIK, may not). A shell script itself has a consistent PID. However, any command called within a shell script is assigned a new

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread John Myers
On Wed, February 2, 2005 1:24 am, Sebastian Flothow said: Am 2. Feb 2005 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb John Myers: It would keep the connection to the master open, and would also have a consistent PID (unlike a shell script, which, AFAIK, may not). A shell script itself has a consistent PID. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:59 am, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, February 2, 2005 1:24 am, Sebastian Flothow said: Am 2. Feb 2005 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb John Myers: It would keep the connection to the master open, and would also have a consistent PID (unlike a shell

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread John Myers
On Wed, February 2, 2005 10:01 am, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. said: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:59 am, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, February 2, 2005 1:24 am, Sebastian Flothow said: Am 2. Feb 2005 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb John Myers: It would keep the connection to the master

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 12:52 pm, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, February 2, 2005 10:01 am, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. said: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:59 am, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, February 2, 2005 1:24 am, Sebastian Flothow said: Am 2. Feb

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:31:51 -0800, John Myers wrote: eprogress - a general-purpose hierarchical progress reporting system It's a good idea, but you should choose a different name. there is already a script called eprogress floating around the forums. It is a quick and dirty, but useful

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 15:02, James Colannino wrote: John Myers wrote: [...]I do, however, really wish that I could find out how far in this build I am.[...] I would absolutely LOVE that ;) Don't mean to be a party popper or anything, but maybe you can lift some code from gentoolkit's

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread Jason Cooper
John Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: [snip to nuts and bolts] eprogress - a general-purpose hierarchical progress reporting system my vision of the architecture has three components: 1) eprogress progress providers (clients?) (perhaps through some sort of libeprogressc). These are

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
eprogress - a general-purpose hierarchical progress reporting system Oh, so you mean something like http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Watch_emerge_progress but hacked into the compiling subsystem? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 01:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: It's a good idea, but you should choose a different name. there is already a script called eprogress floating around the forums. Darn. I just picked it to go along with the whole 'e-prefix' naming scheme. But I will see what I can do.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread John Myers
A clarification: I'm not talking about time estimation here. What I'm talking about is having each provider provide a minimum of two pieces of data: the number of subtasks it will run, and the number of subtasks which have been completed. On Tuesday 01 February 2005 02:47, Jason Cooper wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread Jason Cooper
John Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: A clarification: I'm not talking about time estimation here. What I'm talking about is having each provider provide a minimum of two pieces of data: the number of subtasks it will run, and the number of subtasks which have been completed. So more

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:24:41 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote: I'm not talking about time estimation here. What I'm talking about is having each provider provide a minimum of two pieces of data: the number of subtasks it will run, and the number of subtasks which have been completed. So more

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:24, Jason Cooper wrote: John Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: A clarification: I'm not talking about time estimation here. What I'm talking about is having each provider provide a minimum of two pieces of data: the number of subtasks it will run, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread James Colannino
John Myers wrote: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 01:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: It's a good idea, but you should choose a different name. there is already a script called eprogress floating around the forums. Darn. I just picked it to go along with the whole 'e-prefix' naming scheme. But I will

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:29:13 -0800, James Colannino wrote: Maybe you could expand on the already existing codebase of eprogress and then call it eprogress-enhanced ;) There's plenty of room for expansion :) $ wc -l /usr/local/bin/eprogress 19 /usr/local/bin/eprogress -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
[On in reply to any one message in particular, so not quoting anyone.] Probably the best way to do this is to provide a drop-in replacement for make w/ an optional patch to emerge/ebuild. Make is really what decides how many files will need to be compiled. (For many projects.) Now that's not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 16:03, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [On in reply to any one message in particular, so not quoting anyone.] Probably the best way to do this is to provide a drop-in replacement for make w/ an optional patch to emerge/ebuild. Probably, but in the shorter term, a

[gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-01-31 Thread John Myers
I am looking for a way to make a contribution to Gentoo and open source in general. So I'm thinking to myself, I'm a programmer, why don't I write something? So here I am. I, however, want to get opinions from other Gentoo users before I embark on this quest. I'm not asking for volunteers or

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-01-31 Thread James Colannino
John Myers wrote: [...]I do, however, really wish that I could find out how far in this build I am.[...] I would absolutely LOVE that ;) James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-01-31 Thread Ian K
James Colannino wrote: John Myers wrote: [...]I do, however, really wish that I could find out how far in this build I am.[...] I would absolutely LOVE that ;) James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list DITTO! If I had the skill, I would love to help, but maybe I could help with a website or

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-01-31 Thread Nick Rout
I suggest you join the gentoo-dev list and float that... On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:31 -0800, John Myers wrote: I am looking for a way to make a contribution to Gentoo and open source in general. So I'm thinking to myself, I'm a programmer, why don't I write something? So here I am. I,