render_docs(parallel = TRUE) doesn't show counter

[etiennebacher]

Not sure how hard this would be to implement but I think there are some progress bar functionalities in future so there must be a way to share the count between processes

Also testthat can run in parallel and still counts the tests

[etiennebacher]

That seems quite hard to do and it looks like it's not arriving in future any time soon: futureverse/future.apply#111

If I put cli::cli_progress_step() and cli::cli_progress_update() in future_sapply() then all messages arrive at the same time when the function has finished running, which is useless. This sounds like a lot of effort for little added value, showing which man page failed to render afterwards is probably more useful.

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Some code I tried, just in case:

i <- 0
conversion_worked <- vector(length = n)

if (isTRUE(parallel)) {
  .assert_dependency("future.apply", install = TRUE)
  conversion_worked <- future.apply::future_sapply(
    seq_along(man_source),
    function(x) {
      cli::cli_progress_step("Converting function reference {i}/{n}: {basename(man_source[i])}", spinner = TRUE)
      conversion_worked[x] <<- render_one_man(man_source[x])
      cli::cli_progress_update(inc = 1)
    },
    future.seed = NULL,
    future.conditions = "message"
  )
} else {
  cli::cli_progress_step("Converting function reference {i}/{n}: {basename(man_source[i])}", spinner = TRUE)
  for (i in seq_along(man_source)) {
    conversion_worked[i] <- render_one_man(man_source[i])
    cli::cli_progress_update(inc = 1)
  }
}