Two User-Experience Problems

[Jean-François Caron]

I replied just to Arno by accident, here is the same message for the list:

Oh!  I saw a response about caffeinate, but I thought I had to install Caffeine to get it.  Thanks for pointing it out.  I will try making an alias for “sudo port upgrade” or “sudo port install” that prefixes it with caffeinate.

Regarding the buildmakejobs option that Daniel Luke pointed out: From what I read, this will make all build commands use the specific number that I put, if I don’t put 0, but some ports won’t build properly.  I would like to leave the number of cores up to the system to determine, but cap it at some value.  

I will try increasing the buildnicevalue instead of capping the cores.  That should be equivalent from the user-experience perspective.

Jean-François

On Aug 20, 2015, at 12:51 , Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Jean-François Caron
> <jfcaron at phas.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> 2) Since my OS is unusable during long builds, I walk away from the computer, but then it goes to sleep the build is paused.  The current advice is to get a non-macports app called Caffeine to do some magic, or write a custom port wrapper to use pmset noidle before and after the port command.  This should be an option in the MacPorts configuration somewhere, one shouldn’t have to resort to 3rd-party apps or scripting to get user-friendiness out of MacPorts.
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> "caffeinate" has been included since Mountain Lion (10.8)
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> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/caffeinate.8.html
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