[vtk-developers] Lack of feedback during cache building

[Bill Lorensen]

How about redirecting the old output to a file called status.log or
something. And a visible feedback that says "See status.log for information
on the config process." Or something like that. You me, the old format was
fine.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019, 3:21 PM Elvis Stansvik <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com
wrote:

> Den fre 11 jan. 2019 kl 20:01 skrev Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com
> >:
> >
> > I like to see what modules might be excluded, etc. I'd like to see
> something.
> >
> > Is this the consensus?
>
> I would also like something like that, perhaps something like this:
> https://gist.github.com/estan/db8a9d5ea9e1354822484e9872204e96
>
> Wouldn't have to be always on, but with an option.
>
> I challenge anyone to write a printout like that in CMake :)
>
> Elvis
>
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019, 10:54 AM Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:31:32 -0800, Bill Lorensen wrote:
> >> > If the cache is rebuilt, I do not get and feedback. Just
> >> > Configuring done
> >> >
> >> > How to get the feedback we used to get?
> >>
> >> What benefit did you derive from it? I always saw it as a wall of noise,
> >> personally since it was unconditional and larger than a single screen
> >> anyways.
> >>
> >> I guess, what output should we be generating? For each bit: Should it be
> >> unconditional? If not, should it be on by default?
> >>
> >> --Ben
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Powered by www.kitware.com
> >
> > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
> >
> > Search the list archives at:
> http://markmail.org/search/?q=vtk-developers
> >
> > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> > https://vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtk-developers
> >
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://vtk.org/pipermail/vtk-developers/attachments/20190111/72d8b774/attachment.html>