Re: Suggestions for Anthill OS

Thanks for posting your suggestions. I think we agree on both counts. 
Enabling update instead of just full checkouts is high on the todo list. 
The problem is that it requires adding an update command (or two) to 
each of the supported repositories. That's not trivial. The current plan 
is to extract the Anthill Pro version control interaction library, open 
up its licensing, and use it for scm interaction. That's a substantial 
overhaul, but it makes many of the items on our todo list more viable 
and would make it relatively easy to for Anthill OS to support a couple 
more tools.

The UI is overdue for a complete overhaul. My best UI guys are working 
their butts off to keep up with the development of Anthill3 right now, 
so it probably will be summer before a UI overhaul is possible from our 
side. That said, we're painfully aware that it needs to be done.

While we're on the topic, the other big thing that I'd like to see is 
better logging. If Ant could not be run for some reason, it would be 
great to see what Ant command was run and why that command failed, in 
the UI instead of having to dig through system log files for that.

Again, thanks for the post, I had been meaning to get out a "where is 
Anthill" going email, and you've given me the perfect platform for it.

Regards,
Eric

Res Pons wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> 1- Every time I do a build and just a minor thing breaks my build, AH 
> stops the build naturally. So I fix the problem and click on build 
> again and have to wait angonizingly long for AH to refresh from 
> scratch all over again.  I wish there was an option for AH-OS within 
> the UI to say don't refresh and just update the working folder.
>
> 2- I am somewhat color blind and find it extremely diffcult to 
> distinguish between the chosen blue links on the main page turning to 
> a slightly dingy dimmed hue of gray-blue when hovered! A color 
> extremely difficult to perceive and not visible on laptops.  I use my 
> IE's "Accessibilty" Option to Ignore colors speicied on webpages!!  
> Would you please redefine this color to the browser's default or 
> something which is more visible?
>
> Thank you :)
>
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