Re: [Bashburn-info] I'd like to propose new verbose functionality

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Tuesday, Aug 26th 2008 at 13:24 -0000, quoth Anders Lind?n:

=>I'd prefer an option in the configure menu to turn on/off verbose
=>mode. Not all people want their programs spitting out tons of
=>information, but some of course do. Anyone else have suggestions?

Also, I think it makes more sense for the information to go to the screen 
so the user gets feedback at the time that he executes something. Trying 
to go to a logfile *after* the session is over seems to defeat the purpose 
of learning what's happening while it's happening.

BTW, I'm only talking about those commands that are what bb is all about. 
I'm *not* talking about turning tracing on for the whole script.

=>On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Steven W. Orr <st...@sy...> wrote:
=>> The idea is that I detest GUIs that execute commandlines without telling
=>> you what it's doing. For example, k3b is just doing the same thing (I
=>> believe) that BB is doing; it runs cdrecord, mkisofs, etc, but I never
=>> actually see what it's doing.
=>>
=>> Here at the company I work for, we use Perforce for our revision control.
=>> There's a commandline interface and also a GUI available. The Perforce GUI
=>> is nice because it has a little command window that tells you exactly what
=>> it's doing at all times.
=>>
=>> I'd like to see BB do the same thing. Here are some options:
=>>
=>> * It always goes to a log file. We currently already write the date? to
=>> $BBERRLOG. Alternatively it could just go to stdout or stderr.
=>>
=>> * We could add a -v option to the commandline to turn on this verbose
=>> output.
=>>
=>> * We could have a command option to toggle verbose in the main menu.
=>>
=>> * We could make it a config option.
=>>
=>> Who likes this? Who dislikes it? Are any of the above options attractive?
=>>
=>> Don't think *how* it gets implemented. Think what you want it to do.
=>>

-- 
Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have  .0.
happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0
Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000
individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net