Re: Enhancement request: Termination message for lilypond compilations

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Mats Bengtsson
<address@hidden> wrote:

>>> I've always thought it a real shame that the standard set of messages
>>> from
>>> lilypond left you with a nagging sense of uncertainty whether it had
>>> actually completed or not.
>>>
>>> Typically, you would see this:
>>>
>>
>> Why don't you alias lilypond to
>>
>>  (lilypond "$*" && echo Success) || echo Failed
>>
>> simpler, and more conformant to the unix tradition ("no news is good
>> news").
>
> We already print out a quite extensive log of information during the
> processing (which probably is not conformant to the UNIX tradition), so why
> is it so bad to also tell the user that the PDF was successfully produced.

I think the message looks a bit silly and information-sparse in the
presence of multiple outputs.  Why not print a resume? (Created 5 midi
files, 7 pdf files.)

In case of errors, we already print a list of failed files.

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