UX and Test Improvements

[elcritch]

There's a few different UX improvements in this PR: progress spinner, colorized and prettified nimble deps, and an inverted deps format nimble deps --format=inverted.

Progress Spinner

Nimble can take a while to check git for package caches now among other things, which can lead to frustration not knowing if Nimble is working or hung on some repo.

This PR adds a spinner style progress indicator to make these waits less annoying. The progress is based on suppressed debug messages which gives a good cadence to the work being done.

The spinner is just a simple Working ⡿ style one, not a percentage one. It only shows when using noColor is not set.

Deps Tree

It's colorized and outputs a nice tree format borrowing from Cargo, NPM, etc.

Inverted Deps Tree

It's really helpful to print each dependency for a project and what requirements led to the resolved version.

[arnetheduck]

This is nice - nimble is way way way way too verbose and fills the screen with useless junk for basically anything it does - it should not be wasting vertical space on "I actually managed to perform the task you asked me to" as if this was a surprise, every time.

The spinner is just a simple

instead of "working", it could show what it's doing (ie Scanning xyz or Cloning ...)

[elcritch]

instead of "working", it could show what it's doing (ie Scanning xyz or Cloning ...)

I agree. However, there's limited info on what it's doing at the display proc level.

Maybe I'll give it another take tomorrow. Maybe just some line matching as 90% of the debugging output comes from only a handful of tasks.

[arnetheduck]

some line matching

this sounds like a maintenance nightmare though - maybe better leave it as is until a more deliberate source of information can be developed

[elcritch]

this sounds like a maintenance nightmare though - maybe better leave it as is until a more deliberate source of information can be developed

It could be. Though it shouldn't result in anything breaking just the message going to the default "Working".

I added it as I was curious and it doesn't seem too bad. Does make it nicer to know it's "Scanning" (printPkgInfo) or "Updating" (git ls-remote).

Though the idea is nice, but probably best to revert it. It'd be better and probably not too hard to pipe the info in via the doCmd pieces.

[elcritch]

This is nice - nimble is way way way way too verbose and fills the screen with useless junk for basically anything it does - it should not be wasting vertical space on "I actually managed to perform the task you asked me to" as if this was a surprise, every time.

Given that the resolver uses SAT now and there's a deps command it could be a good chance to remove this sorta stuff:

  Success:  threading installed successfully.
  Verifying dependencies for sigils@0.8.5
     Info:  Dependency on variant@>= 0.2.12 already satisfied
  Verifying dependencies for variant@0.3.1
     Info:  Dependency on threading@#master already satisfied
  Verifying dependencies for threading@0.2.0
     Info:  Dependency on stack_strings@any version already satisfied
  Verifying dependencies for stack_strings@1.1.4
     Info:  Dependency on patty@>= 0.3.4 already satisfied
  Verifying dependencies for patty@0.3.5
 Installing sigils@0.8.5

[elcritch]

@jmgomez this is ready. Not sure who's reviewing these things nowadays so figured I'd ping you.

[jmgomez]

Looks good to me. But @Araq is the one approving for the time being :)