MacPorts 2.1.0 has been released - problems with the progress lines

[James Berry]

On May 16, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:

> 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.

Note that we already have a tcl version of isatty, defined in pextlib.

James


>> 
>> 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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