Zykino
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1 year ago * [ ] Run each upgrade in parallel (or a few at a time maybe like `make -j8`) and optionally in a seperate tmux panes/windows * Reasoning: A slow step like nix will waste a lot of time, during which other things can move forwardI thought about it. But once you dig into it there are multiples problems that come up and on my own, it was not clear how to address them:
- Each command have multiples steps that are generally intensive on different part of the system. -> Parallelizing different resources usage OK, doing
make -jinsidemake -jwill NOT speed compilation time, I believe.- Download/Fetch (network + disk IO)
- Compilation (compute and/or disk IO)
- Installation (some commands bind this with the other ones so… any/all/none?)
- Post-install (anythings goes here from cleanup
apt autoremoveto download/compile auxiliary resources `hx --grammar fetch && hx --grammar build- Some upgrades depends on other (or at the very least) should not be upgraded in the same time
- ex1: Updating the system’s compiler while using them may not work on some systems (Windows) and on other it may break the artifacts (a compiler being called on version X for half of the build and Y on the other half may bring breakages at link time).
- ex2: You want to update the rust toolchain before upgrading all of yours binaries.
A set of dependencies-list, hints, … may all be combined in an algo, I don’t have it yet. Maybe I’m too worried about all that, but I don’t think "start the system update command until it finished with OK" is a good approach :sweat_smile:.
On the view side I see something like zplug shows on the README’s gif. A line for each step done in parallel that update itself.
Export stdout & stderr of each command in /tmp/topgrad-cargo t --no-capture and/or --no-capture-on-error.
* [ ] Ablility to generate an initial config file via `topgrade --init-config` (or in the first run) prompting the user with choices on what they want to include in the topgrade. (unlike the --config-reference which just outputs a hardcoded example file) * [ ] Document all available upgrades that topgrade does in the websiteMore information
Just suggesting to get a feel of what the maintainers think of something like these, or for suggestions on any external solutions outside topgrade that can be used (I can think of dmux, tmuxp, fzf --multi).
:+1: for a better docs. I did not used the command yet, but the config file is a monster to approach, and one may want to understand how an executor is found and its options before starting a command this important on their own system.
Auravendill
I want to suggest a few wild features
Topgrade should...
make -j8) and optionally in a seperate tmux panes/windowstopgrade --init-config(or in the first run) prompting the user with choices on what they want to include in the topgrade. (unlike the --config-reference which just outputs a hardcoded example file)More information
Just suggesting to get a feel of what the maintainers think of something like these, or for suggestions on any external solutions outside topgrade that can be used (I can think of dmux, tmuxp, fzf --multi).