Re: Next steps

[Sahithi Yarlagadda]

Hi

Please review the patch and assign me the what to do next.


On Saturday 30 June 2018 04:21 AM, Sahithi Yarlagadda wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>>> a spinning animation.  For each line the animation could be advanced by
>>> one (so it will spin really fast).
>>>
>>> Danny previously suggested this implementation:
>>>
>>>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2017-07/msg00068.html
> I have tried the Spinner code and it worked fine for me
>
> https://paste.debian.net/1031385/
> I used usleep so that I could to see the characters spinning with a
> little delay to understand the code.
>
>
> I tried to use the same for ui.scm, the  i replaced str with
> spinner-port in handle-string code. I got the following
>  15fb4d0>#<output: file 15fb4d0>#<output: file 15fb4d0>#<output: file
> 15fb4d0>#<output: file 15fb4d0>
>
>
> I understood that i am working on a softport and unable to figure out
> how to pass the string without invoking the display/write. I took a lot
> of time and failed.
>
>
> Here comes the actual part,
> Later i discussed with #ArneBab in #guile who helped be finish the code.
> I felt that invoking the spinner each time a string is triggered would
> be sufficient and it doesnt matter whatever might be the string apart
> from the expressions which are colorized, so went on to write the code
> which i am submitting as a patch. For this i had to try a lot of new
> syntaxes.
>
>
> Now the spinner is working fine, build messages are colored and the
> whole build process looks understandable to the user.
>
> Actually im a bit excited!!!! to see the spinner code working and the
> build output. Just wanted to share that to the community.
>
>
> Please review the patch and push it to wip-sahithi if the progress is
> correct.
>
>> Have fun!
>>
>> --
>> Ricardo
>>
>>

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Regards
Sahithi