[Buildroot] [RFC] progress indicator

[Yegor Yefremov]

Am 10.02.2012 23:55, schrieb Arnout Vandecappelle:
> On Thursday 09 February 2012 00:32:42 Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>> What about making a progress indicator, so that user always knows how
>> many packages left to be built? Like Android (AOSP) does during repo
>> sync:
>>
>> Fetching projects:  53% (127/238)  Receiving objects:  22% (290/1289), 195.95 Ki
>> Fetching projects:  54% (129/238)  Receiving objects:  28% (361/1289), 195.95 Ki
>> Fetching projects:  55% (131/238)  Receiving objects:  47% (606/1289), 643.81 Ki
> 
>  crosstool-NG does it as well.
> 
>  However, I don't see how you would do it without major surgery to the 
> infrastructure.

I fear it is inevitable. But if someone has lots of free time, it would be a nice feature. Especially on slow machines it is very nice to know how long will take to build.

Yegor