[Monotone-devel] Ticker support in automate?

[Thomas Keller]

Hi!

In the future several monotone commands not yet available via automate 
will be available there (soon annotate, not that soon push/pull/sync).

Since these actions can take a little longer and may even reside on 
network latency / throughput, there is no feedback to the calling 
process if such a command would be implemented in automate.

Now if an automate command should use a ticker, there is obviously the 
problem that there is no stderr in stdio, therefor the ticker output 
would screw with the command's output. Also, its not clear if for ticker 
support some kind of special "output stanza" should be introduced, since 
the current one is a bit overloaded and may not fit in there 100%. 
Currently, to do a ticker, one would need to output several of those:

1:0:l:1:r
2:0:l:1:r
3:0:l:1:c
...

where the actual output char could be completly dependent on the command 
 (i.e. pull and friends count certs and revisions, annotate only 
revisions...) and each of these stanzas would look like the output to 
some command (and would have no relation to it). However, a stanza with 
the initial counter size is missing and not at all defined by this.

So what are your opinions about that? Can this be implemented, and if 
yes, what would be your preferred way of doing it?

Thomas.

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