[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add events ALPM_EVENT_HOOK_{START,DONE}

[Olivier Brunel]

On Sun,  6 Dec 2015 18:35:37 +0100
Olivier Brunel <jjk at jjacky.com> wrote:

> Add events to let frontends know when hooks are being processed (and
> when it's done), as that might be useful to update the UI.
> 
> It can also be useful to know when ALPM_EVENT_SCRIPTLET_INFO might be
> happening in that regard (There's no specific event for running
> scriptlets, but they do happen at specific times after/before
> ALPM_EVENT_PACKAGE_OPERATION_{START,DONE}).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Brunel <jjk at jjacky.com>
> ---

Forgot to say, I know there's a freeze for 5.0, but I figured you might
wanna add this in, because if for pacman you're fine not having this
information, for other frontends not knowing what's happening/that
something is running, and out of nowhere getting some SCRIPTLET_INFO
events, might be "odd"/problematic to provide good/consistent UI.

And since such changes involve API changes, I feel it might be good to
have at least those events in the 5.0 release.