Re: poll re: 2.3.x features

[Tony Kolarik]

Speaking of finding errors, warnings, etc., I posted a diff a while ago that 
standardized all
the cons output to start with either "cons_error: " or "cons_warning: " (or 
something
similar).  I find having something uniform to grep for in the output helpfull.  
Any chance we
could get that into the distribution?
 -- Tony K.

Alex Jacques wrote:

> Sounds good - how's this?
> You may specify -q -q or, as a minor convenience for very poor
> typists, -qq.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Behalf Of Steven Knight
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 6:10 PM
> To: Alex Jacques
> Cc: address@hidden; Alex M. Jacques
> Subject: RE: poll re: 2.3.x features
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Alex Jacques wrote:
> > I humbly submit a very small patch that I find very helpful.
> > This adds a -Q switch that makes Cons run quieter than the -q switch.
> In
> > particular commands are not echoed as they are executed and
> indications
> > of successful status (e.g. "blah-blah-blah up-to-date") are not
> printed.
> > Warnings and errors are still displayed though. Hence -Q is roughly
> > equivalent to GNU Make's -s. I find that this makes it a lot easier to
> > find warnings from the compiler, etc., in the output. The problem with
> > starting command lines with '@' is that the commands are never
> > displayed, so debugging Construct files, etc. is difficult.
>
> Alex--
>
> Good idea, good patch.  I'm inclined to suggest one change in the user
> interface:  Rather than adding a separate -Q flag, we can make multiple
> -q flags increase the "quietness" level.
>
>         % cons -q .        # run quietly, suppress Install/Remove messages
>         % cons -q -q .     # run very quietly, suppress commands and 
> up-to-date
>         % cons -q -q -q .  # run very VERY quietly...?
>
> This would allow for a little more flexibility in the future for
> fine-tuning which messages get displayed.
>
>         --SK
>
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