darcs

Issue 1975 "defining environment variables" message makes no sense

Title "defining environment variables" message makes no sense
Priority bug Status resolved
Milestone 2.5.0 Resolved in 2.8.0
Superseder Nosy List dmitry.kurochkin, galbolle, gh
Assigned To galbolle
Topics UI

Created on 2010-10-17.09:11:12 by gh, last changed 2010-11-16.08:33:04 by kowey.

Messages
msg12733 (view) Author: gh Date: 2010-10-17.09:11:12
When doing a darcs pull -a, I very often see the message "Defining 
environment variables", while I am waiting for Darcs to work. I never 
understood what this was about, as a user.

Florent proposed a patch to replace this message by a message mentioning 
set of patch calculation: http://bugs.darcs.net/patch416
msg13063 (view) Author: kowey Date: 2010-11-15.14:43:02
If I understand correctly, this was resolved by patch416 being applied 
in 2.8.0 HEAD (which we can call informally darcs 2.7 if we want).

Note that it's a sign that we need to do something more intelligent with 
our progress reporting framework, because 'defining environment 
variables' really was the right thing to say.  

But if I understand Florent correctly, it's possible that darcs needed 
to do to define environment variables may be some huge thing that 
happens through laziness.
msg13064 (view) Author: kowey Date: 2010-11-15.14:43:20
(I have a note to myself to post a message to darcs-users about this)
msg13075 (view) Author: mornfall Date: 2010-11-15.19:55:47
Eric Kow <bugs@darcs.net> writes:

> Note that it's a sign that we need to do something more intelligent with 
> our progress reporting framework, because 'defining environment 
> variables' really was the right thing to say.  

It could also simply be that something after that step, something runs
after that, takes a long time and does not have any progress
info. IIUIC, anyway. Whatever the reason, the user experience is awful
in the end.

Yours,
   Petr.
History
Date User Action Args
2010-10-17 09:11:12ghcreate
2010-11-15 14:43:06koweysetpriority: bug
status: unknown -> resolved
topic: + UI
messages: + msg13063
resolvedin: 2.8.0
2010-11-15 14:43:20koweysetstatus: resolved -> unknown
messages: + msg13064
2010-11-15 19:55:48mornfallsetmessages: + msg13075
2010-11-16 08:33:04koweysetstatus: unknown -> resolved