Option to default to a simple log when using a single thread

[famod]

It would come in handy to able to opt-out of the log buffering in case you want a more default maven output, e.g. to compare runs to mvn in case mvnd is showing unexpected behaviour.
When building Quarkus with its 700+ modules, console can also become unresponsive for a while when everything is flushed at once at the end of the build.

[gnodet]

Hitting the <enter> key or Ctrl+M should mitigate this behaviour as the output of each module will be displayed once it has been built. It could changed to be the default behavior... Can you give it a try ?

[famod]

Hitting the <enter> key or Ctrl+M should mitigate this behaviour as the output of each module will be displayed once it has been built.

Confirmed, thanks!

It could changed to be the default behavior...

Well, if I would see the condensed status as described in README (which I don't, maybe because of #36?), then I would actually prefer the less noisy mode to be the default.
Ideally there should be a command line argument to switch to the more noisy mode und the icing on the cake would be if the default could be configured in a config file (which the command line argument would override if present).

Btw, is there something like MVND_OPTS (analogous to MAVEN_OPTS)?

[jglick]

I would really like to opt out of the custom display (which by the way is broken in Emacs’ M-x shell), and the implicit -T, so that the behavior is as similar to mvn as possible.

[ppalaga]

I would really like to opt out of the custom display (which by the way is broken in Emacs’ M-x shell

Could you please file a separate issue?

), and the implicit -T, so that the behavior is as similar to mvn as possible.

Could you please file a separate issue in which you explain why?

[jglick]

Another reason to want output to be displayed normally as it arrives: watching the progress of tests. I actually rolled back a Surefire update just because it broke this: jenkinsci/plugin-pom#343

[gnodet]

@jglick the progress can also be seen in more details if you hit the '+' key 3/4 times during the build... (hit '-' to get revert).
It will display the last few lines for each module

[ppalaga]

I wonder, if we could automatically stretch the rolling log to the full screen in case there is just a single thread running?

[gnodet]

@ppalaga I was thinking about:

• having an option to just display the events when they come (prefixed by the projectId to make it more understandable), this would be when running on a dumb terminal Better support for dumb terminals #131
• having an option to default to a simple log when using a single thread (i.e. just print the events when they come as maven does) Option to default to a simple log when using a single thread #116
• make the default rolling window size configurable (it currently defaults to 0, but it could be raised a bit by default, not sure)

Maybe the first two can be the same. It's just that we add the prefix if the build has a max number of threads > 1.