[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/7] Developer workflow improvements

[Trevor Woerner]

(oops! sorry for going off-list)


On 12/09/14 05:50, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Monday 08 December 2014 22:30:31 Trevor Woerner wrote:
>> This is really awesome stuff. I'm still playing around with it.
>>
>> My current HEAD is:
>>
>>     commit 6ea5f5368a88317ace198f44a47cf043bc9fb6e6
>>     Author: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
>>     Date:   Fri Dec 5 11:30:25 2014 +0000
>>
>>         devtool: use event filtering to disable events if available
>>
>> on your contrib/paule/devtool branch.
>>
>> If I do a "devtool add" without a "devtool create-workspace" it succeeds
>> but I get:
>>
>>     $ devtool add xannounce ~/devel/code/xannounce
>>     INFO: Creating workspace layer in
>>     INFO: Recipe recipes/xannounce/xannounce.bb has been automatically
>>     created; further editing may be required to make it fully functional
>>
>> and find the changes have been made in the current directory. If I do
>> the "devtool create-workspace" first, I get a "workspace" directory and
>> all the stuff put in there, which is nicer.
>>
>> If it doesn't fail due to a user running "devtool add" before "devtool
>> create-workspace" then I think it would be nice if the two results were
>> the same.
> Ah, oops - I've found the cause and fixed it on the branch. Thanks!

Awesome... *very* nice. It works great now.


>
>> Would it be possible to make the output of devtool be nice and colourful
>> like the output of bitbake?
> Good idea, this is now done on the branch as well. "devtool build" doesn't 
> support colour in the bitbake output, but that's because colour support in 
> bitbake is switched by whether the output is going to a TTY and stdout is 
> being redirected in this case. (I guess we could add a command line option for 
> that as I have with devtool/recipetool.)
>

If it's not too much trouble I would like to ask that colour/curses be
possible/enabled by default. Trying to find the error in all that output
is a "needle in a haystack"-like operation :-)

I wonder if all the

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Could be (should be) done as part of the "devtool
create-workspace"/"devtool add" operation?