cmake and progress reporting

[Thomas Zander]

On Friday 16 June 2006 17:24, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> >Apart from markup differences, the percentage printed is still for the
> >whole build
> It shows how much of the total current task is completed.

No it does not.
It shows how much of the *total* task is completed.  I hope you realizes 
you are looking just a silly for not reading what I write as I look by 
repeating it over and over again.

>  There is no way to query make and have it tell
> you how much stuff needs to be done.

Ok, clear. Then its not a feature that can possibly be implemented by 
cmake. I respect that. Just be honest about it.

> IMO, I don't think it is 
> misleading, and it gives good feedback to the users. 

Right. I think you fail to appreciate the size of projects.
In KOffice we have a total of 2670 source files.
In KWord I have 185. 
So a clean and recompile of kword (good for at least 5 min) makes make go 
from 93% to 100%.  In 5 and a half minutes.
Sorry if I think thats not useful.

> > your example is rather contrived and misleading in the extreme. :(
>
> IMO, I don't think it is misleading, and it gives good feedback to the
> users.

The misleading is not cmake; it was your example. It showed a situation 
where in both situations it started with 25%. Making it _look_ different 
from my example you replied to. But it was doing the same thing. Making 
your email useless. The wording was also so that it was easy to believe 
you fixed my complaint. Which you didn't. Its not a problem that can be 
solved as long as we use gnu-make.

-- 
Thomas Zander
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