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From: Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: elfutils-devel@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Expanding control over debuginfod usage from dwfl [was: Re: Questions regarding debuginfod.h API]
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 21:44:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4558765.LvFx2qVVIh@agathemoarbauer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220706194133.GE9702@redhat.com>

On Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2022 21:41:33 CEST Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> > a) Notifying the user that a download is ongoing. Right now, it feels like
> > the tool is frozen as no feedback is given to the user.
> 
> Right, can you explain how DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS=1 is not a good fit in your
> case?

As you said yourself:

> There is a
> DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS env var with which it can activate some
> notification to stderr, but that's about it.

I'm working on GUI applications (hotspot [1], gammaray [2]), people do not 
look at the command line output. I want to show the download progress and 
status graphically instead.

[1]: https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot/
[2]: https://github.com/KDAB/gammaray

-- 
Milian Wolff
http://milianw.de



  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-06 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-08 12:44 Questions regarding debuginfod.h API Milian Wolff
2022-04-08 13:44 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-04-08 19:09   ` Milian Wolff
2022-04-08 19:44     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-04-08 19:50       ` Milian Wolff
2022-04-09 13:44         ` Expanding control over debuginfod usage from dwfl [was: Re: Questions regarding debuginfod.h API] Milian Wolff
2022-07-06 18:28           ` Milian Wolff
2022-07-06 18:40             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-07-06 19:37               ` Milian Wolff
2022-07-06 19:41                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-07-06 19:44                   ` Milian Wolff [this message]
2022-07-06 19:54                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-04-16 15:03         ` Questions regarding debuginfod.h API Frank Ch. Eigler

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