Re: Suggestions for Anthill OS

Thank you so much for your quick response and the good news.  I surely CAN 
wait until summer, it's not that far.  You guys do great work and we do 
appreciate it :)

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Subject: Re: [Anthill] Suggestions for Anthill OS
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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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