[Buildbot-devel] PATCH: environment variables spread over multiple lines

[Stefan Seefeld]

Greg Ward wrote:
> On 7/4/07, Brian Warner <warner-buildbot at lothar.com> wrote:
>> I find myself similarly annoyed with those long lines. I'm wondering if
>> transforming them into a somewhat tall header might be equally annoying..
>> maybe getting in the way of the actual stdout/stderr produced by the command.
> 
> Scrolling vertically is MUCH easier than scrolling horizontally.  If
> dumping the environment annoys people, then IMHO the right fix is to
> let them turn off the env dump.  (It's another one of those things
> that you're most likely to need when developing and debugging your
> buildbot setup; once things are humming along nicely, I imagine it's
> just noise.)

Right, all those data get really important only once things fail. However,
don't underestimate just *how* important they are, then. And even if the
failure doesn't happen in a buildbot build, but say, for a user who runs builds
manually elsewhere, and then uses a buildbot log as a reference.
It is still a major help to be able to walk over all the  parameters
that may affect a build (test, in particular), to spot any difference.

Regards,
		Stefan

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