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 >> >> -- Regards Sahithi
