Progress bars during generation

[Delapouite]

Hi

My docpad database have more than 500 documents at the moment and this number will soon double.
The generation takes about 3 minutes to complete on a not so old machine.

So the console get stuck at the **info: Generating...**line for a long time with no feedback of what's going on behind the scene.
The debug flag provide lots of information but is not very useful to estimate the global progress of the process.

De you reckon there should be a middle ground between the mute state and the debug state with progress bars indicating in real-time the percentage of docs processed by phases?

[balupton]

Not sure how to do progress bars, but from memory they are pretty complicated.

Alternatively, we could do it so every 10 seconds we show the progress of the generation so:

Generating...
Generating... 58/500 (11%)
Generating... 90/500 (18%)
etc...

Would that work for you? This way is good to, as for people where generation happens below <10 seconds it works as normal.

[Delapouite]

Yes, progress bars were just referred as eye candy.
Your proposal would already be a much appreciated enhancement.

[balupton]

Sweet, will get to this in one of the upcoming releases :)

[balupton]

Now in v6.7.0 :)