vcsjob starting to output too early

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Fri Aug 20 07:03:17 UTC 2010


On 19.08.10 14:00:25, Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 19.08.10 03:54:10, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > I've been trying to put some information on the VersionControl output
> > view
> > > to try to be able to see what is the tool that's showing some output.
> > >
> > > The thing is that the output is started in VcsJob constructor so we don't
> > > have any chance to put a title into it or an object name or anything so
> > we
> > > don't have any chance to differentiate. I've locally moved that to depend
> > on
> > > the VcsJob::start (the developer who implements the support will have to
> > > care about triggering it to show).
> > >
> > > I'm just sending this e-mail to know if other developers agree that it's
> > the
> > > best solution. Another solution would be to delay the start so that we
> > can
> > > put a title on the constructor but I think waiting until start makes it
> > > easier to provide a meaningful title.
> >
> > Can you elaborate with a patch? I can't follow your explanations (maybe
> > its just too early) :(
> 
> Sure, maybe mine was too late :P
> 
> Hope that helps!

Thanks, see my other mail regarding the vcsjob-changes. But I don't
understand the new action the patch adds. Whats the purpose of that?

Andreas

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