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

[A. L. <and...@gm...>]

> 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.
>
True, but wouldn't it also be a good idea to have a log file that
people can just send to us incase something goes wrong?

> 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.
>
Yeah that's what I figured, and I'm all for it as long as an option to
disable this functionality also exists.

> =>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.
> =>>
>
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