[plt-scheme] Progress information from PLaneT

There should be a mode where it prints something, I agree. But just so
it is clear, the ordinary 'require' mode doesn't and shouldn't print
anything because it is just an ordinary require and so it shouldn't
produce extra (observable) effects. It has been suggested that, when a
require from planet happens inside drscheme, drscheme should show you
the progress. That should be doable, but I haven't had a chance to
actually do it yet.

Robby

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Thomas Chust <chust at web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder whether it is possible to get any progress display or messages
> that show what is happening from the long running PLaneT commands.
>
> When adding some larger package with a bunch of dependencies to a fresh
> PLT Scheme installation with planet install, one can wait for several
> minutes for the command to complete and not a single line of output is
> generated. In the documentation, the help output from the command line
> utility and by experimentation I haven't found a way to enable any kind
> of more verbose output than this total silence, except in case of errors :-(
>
> >From a package manager I would expect that it at least prints out which
> packages are being installed, preferrably together with counts of
> packages already processed and remaining to be installed to give the
> user an idea how long the setup may take.
>
> cu,
> Thomas
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