Does Pants have generic progress bars for its `pac...
# general
h
Does Pants have generic progress bars for its
package
/
fmt
/
lint
steps? It would be very useful to estimate time remaining for larger repos.
e
I would love to see something like this. (and for
test
too, even if its just a measure of number of test files completed/total, no need to account for some files taking longer than others)
w
Do we have any progress bars?
h
Yep, either ones we bubble up from the underlying tools (pex, pytest etc.) or a generic wrapper that would work for multiple steps?
w
I just mean, today - are there progress bars? I didnt think there were
h
Not from what I’d seen or from a scrape through the docs, but thought I might be missing a trick somewhere.
w
I'd agree though, that would be nice - locally at the very least. Less sure about CI
h
https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/17737
Here’s a related issue
Only somewhat related, unless that dynamic UI issue is true for all cases and is the reason for this not being a feature.
I’d agree though, that would be nice - locally at the very least. Less sure about CI
Definitely. Estimating time left is a big pain point for some of our larger steps since the output is just sequential and hard to track by eye.