Print a message when a continuous build has finished building all targets.

[zenhack]

I'm finding myself resorting to top to tell whether the build for sandstorm is actually completed; it would be nice if ekam -c would print out a message when it's built the last target.

[kentonv]

Hmm, are you finding the color coding hard to distinguish? Steps that are still running are colored purple, whereas finished steps are blue (successful non-tests), green (successful tests), or red (failed).

[zenhack]

I noticed the purple thing some time after having posted this. I can tell the difference, once I'm looking for it, but I am slightly blue-purple colorblind, so perhaps that has something to do with why it didn't jump out at me at first. It occurs to me that green-red may cause problems for other folks as well, though not me personally.

Also, while I'm not using it as much anymore, color-coding is something of a no-go with my smaller laptop:

https://zenhack.net/2015/07/25/working-outside.html

(The screen is black-and-white when the backlight is off).

[zenhack]

One simple way to improve this would be to just add the status (as text) in front of the output, like:

[DONE] compile: foo.c
[DONE] compile: bar.c
[....] compile: baz.c

I also think adding a Build finished message at the end would be useful; even when I'm looking for the color coding, it's a bit easier at a glance to look for the presence of something than the absence of something (like a purple keyword or [....] or whatever it ends up being). In a non-continuous build, the return to the prompt plays this role.

[kentonv]

Yeah I agree some non-color indicators would be a good idea. Maybe we can use:

• ↺ Step in progress. (Some day we can be fancy and animate it but that'll require a lot more code.)
•     Step complete (blank space, no icon)
• ✔ Test passed
• ✘ Test/step failed

Thoughts?

[kentonv]

(All those code points work great in my terminal FWIW.)