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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor changes in python.eclass and distutils.eclass
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:30:35
Message-Id: 201007052030.26739.Arfrever@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor changes in python.eclass and distutils.eclass by Mark Loeser
1 2010-07-05 20:00:11 Mark Loeser napisał(a):
2 > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o> said:
3 > > 2010-07-05 18:26:40 Samuli Suominen napisał(a):
4 > > > On 07/05/2010 07:17 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
5 > > > > 2010-07-05 18:13:26 Samuli Suominen napisał(a):
6 > > > >> On 07/05/2010 06:23 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
7 > > > >>> These minor changes in python.eclass and distutils.eclass have been already
8 > > > >>> reviewed on alias of Gentoo Python Project. It's recommended to be familiar
9 > > > >>> with internals of current code before trying to understand these minor changes.
10 > > > >>> Suggestions about indentation and quoting will be rejected.
11 > > > >>>
12 > > > >>
13 > > > >> You have been already told to get rid of all the color customizations in
14 > > > >> the python eclasses here:
15 > > > >>
16 > > > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309057#c2
17 > > > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309057#c3
18 > > > >>
19 > > > >> [ .. ]
20 > > > >>
21 > > > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309057#c5
22 > > > >>
23 > > > >> The bug was wrongly closed as fixed, as it's not really fixed before
24 > > > >> it's all punted
25 > > > >
26 > > > > Colors can be used with echo.
27 > > > >
28 > > >
29 > > > Stop using echo for output and switch to standard output functions, like
30 > > > einfo/eerror/elog/... like told in
31 > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309057#c5
32 > >
33 > > You should read relevant part of comment #7:
34 > > "The colors can of course be continued to be used in outputs that are purely build
35 > > time outputting and not for communicating things for users like what cmake builds do."
36 > >
37 > > python.eclass uses colors for build time outputting, which doesn't communicate anything for users.
38 >
39 > Everyone else has already made valid points. I'm just picking this one
40 > to reply to now. Please remove the colors you have added. If you need
41 > a new function, say "eqawarn", we should have that added in the next
42 > EAPI with a description of when and where to use it.
43
44 In case of the colored message added in this patch, if einfo/elog/ewarn/eqawarn/eerror was used,
45 then its output wouldn't be logged by Portage.
46
47 --
48 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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