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Build RC1 From EG: It is great to see the accumulated errors, but it uses too many of my brain cycles to interpret the numbers. What I want to see at a glance is whether there are newly found errors. Now this information is spread apart: Found/Fixed Errors 3/0 Warinng 3/1 Can we group this differently: Found 3 Errors (0 warnings), Fixed 3 (0)
I had the exact same comment to Kent. He wanted to make them compact, and I also have a hard decoding this info too. We will improve as we get feedback...
From Kent: Some things to keep in mind: 1. Some people do not care about warnings at all and would prefer not to see them. 2. We have very limited space since the overall builder message cannot be split over 2 lines. This portion will come before the rest of the progress message. 3. The compound message is not displayed that often since you usually are adding problems or fixing problems, not both. So the various messages will be: Found: 3 errors Found: 2 warnings Found: 3 errors, 2 warnings Fixed: 2 errors Fixed: 4 warnings Fixed: 2 errors, 4 warnings And then: Found/Fixed: 3/2 errors, 2/4 warnings OR Found: 3 errors (2 warnings), Fixed: 2 (4) OR Found: 3 errors, Fixed: 2 errors - and drop the warnings all together
I personally care about errors vs warnings. The current message usually spans over 2 lines (wrapping just after 'compiling'), which means that even if we don't produce a 2 line message, we still have room to make it more human readable. This one reads ok to me: Found: 3 errors (2 warnings), Fixed: 2 (4)
From Erich: One more nit. Since users have to be able to scan these messages quickly both the found and fixed messages formats should be constant and not change dynamcially. Instead of: Found: 3 errors Found: 2 warnings Found: 3 errors, 2 warnings there should be a fixed message: Found: 3 errors (0 warnings) Found: 0 errors (2 warnings) Found: 3 errors (2 warnings).
Too many of the progress dialogs do not wrap the text since they are restricted to a single line. Take a look at the progress line in the left corner of the Java perspective, there is only room for about 40 characters total. Unless we're saying that we don't care about the builder message (Compiling ..., or Cleaning output folder...), then we have to limit the size of this message. Even more so now since it will be visible throughout the build. Showing (0 warnings) in 'Found: 3 errors (0 warnings), Fixed: 1 (0)' will clip the builder messages off considerably.
In the latest drop the compound message was changed to: Found 3 errors + 2 warnings, Fixed 2 + 4 Will wait for feedback before closing this PR.
Would this read bad: (+3 errors, -12 warnings) ?
what message would show up when 2 warnings were found and 2 warnings were fixed?
Ok, I stop arguing <g>
Done. Closing since the RC2 builds start today.
Verified.
