Re: GOP-PROP 5: build system output

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: GOP-PROP 5: build system output


> Am Sonntag, 10. Juli 2011, 12:50:19 schrieb Phil Holmes:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
> > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:16:21PM +0100, Graham Percival wrote:
> > > I think we should use logfiles by default -- actually, we should
> > > use logfiles exclusively -- and then display bits of logfiles if
> > > that seems helpful in debugging problems.
> >
> > My concern with this is that we may get a lot of people surprised and
> > confused by this - "hey, where's all my usual output gone - something 
> > must
> > be wrong!".
>
> But once they have realized how a changed build system works, I don't see 
> any
> disadvantage. So, it's just the first time that they might be confused (if
> there is some progress and no error messages, I would think they are not
> really confused, but astonished that something is new...).


Just want to make sure we don't do this by mistake.  It's looking like there 
is a growing consensus that a semi-silent build should be the default.

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Phil Holmes