[Feature]: Display toolchain commands trace in real time

[mengdaming]

Contact Details

damien.menanteau@gmail.com

Feature Request

Currently, when running an external command (such as gradle, maven, git, etc), TCR waits for the command to terminate before reporting its output into the terminal.

As long as these commands run fast this is almost transparent and therefore is not an issue. This becomes more problematic when external commands take a longer time to complete (git operations over a slow network, slow build or test commands, ...) as this gives the user the impression that TCR is hanging, while it's actually only waiting for external commands to end.

Having the ability to report subcommands trace in real time would solve this problem.

Feature Description

Rework the external command calls so that stdout and stderr traces are traced back into the terminal regularly before the command ends (line by line trace should be enough).

We should be careful that these changes do not alter the current TCR workflow.

Alternatives

N/A

Additional Context

Here's a blog post on how to capture an external command output and show progress at the same time:

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/wOYk/advanced-command-execution-in-go-with-osexec.html

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