MacPorts 2.1.0 has been released - problems with the progress lines

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Clemens Lang wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
>>>> Is there something I can do to switch this progess thingy off ???
> 
>> disabling the feature isn't really the same thing as just disabling
>> the eye-candy progress count-down. I suspect you are not the only one
>> who pipes port output to file like this. I don't anymore, but used to
>> when I ran an update via cron. If there is really no way to disable
>> the count down, for this sort of use case, then probably a trac
>> feature request is in order ;)
> 
> There currently is no way to do this. Please, by all means, file a
> ticket, and I'll try to get to it as soon as possible. It'll probably
> involve making a tcl version of isatty(3) and only printing the eyecandy
> when connected to a tty.
> 
> Other than that, running port in verbose mode with "-v" also disables
> the eyecandy.
> 

ticket filed :
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34480

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