Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget][RFC] Even more changes to the progress bar

[Ángel González]

On 19/05/14 21:17, Darshit Shah wrote:
> This patch is currently only a RFC. There's a few things I'd like your
> comments on:
>
> 1. Should the numbers have localization support? They don't seem to
> have localization support as of now. i.e. 123.45 would be displayed as
> 123,45 for the Europeans.
Yes. Just like the transfer speed currently has.


> 2. I am not aware of anyone parsing the output of Wget's progress bar.
> Do you think changing the default output would cause a problem?
No.

> 3. Should we add some kind of --human-readable option to toggle
> between bytes output and human readable output?
I don't like dozens of options just to control the progress bar. I 
wouldn't add
it yet. Maybe if we later see a need for it.


Best regards