[darcs-devel] darcs patch: Actually run perl tests. (and 1 more)

David Roundy daveroundy at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 21:06:48 UTC 2008


On Jan 18, 2008 5:42 AM, Nicolas Pouillard <nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from David Roundy's message of Thu Jan 17 21:36:02 +0100 2008:
> > Thanks for the patch! However, I've now moved both of these messages to
> > debugMessage, since I'd rather keep --verbose free for "useful"
> > (i.e. non-progress) output.
>
> What  about  a --progress flag? I completely agree that one should not pollute
> --verbose  with progress stuff, but I rather keep --debug when I felt that's a
> bug in darcs.
>
> Perhaps  that  would  be  an  occasion to give an argument to progress like an
> integer  or  better  a  list  of  tags  that  we  want  to see the progression
> (commutations,  network,  disk,  reading patches...). That should be something
> quite  nice  looking  so  that  people  can  leave  some  of  these  in  their
> ~/.darcs/defaults file.
>
> What do you think of it?

I think I'd rather keep the number of flags low.  Hopefully we can get
a default that is good enough for most folks.

David


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