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

[Darshit Shah]

Thanks for all the suggestions. Here is the final version of the
patch. Do test it out and let me know if anything is amiss / something
would look better if changed.


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:
> Darshit Shah <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Ángel González <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 19/05/14 21:17, Darshit Shah wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
>> Thought so, needed secondary confirmation
>
> and I think we don't care.  People shouldn't parse the progress bar.  If
> someone wants this information then we should look for another way to
> offer it.
>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>> Yes, even I believe there are too many options for controlling the
>> progress bar's output. I'll just make this the default, if people
>> complain, we can add a switch.
>
> agree :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Giuseppe



-- 
Thanking You,
Darshit Shah

0001-More-progress-bar-aesthetic-changes.patch
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