Re: [Bug-wget] broken progressbar in 1.16

[Darshit Shah]

Hi Michael,

Thanks a lot for your email.

While we try our best to regression test every new feature, some issues
often seep through the cracks.

On 28-Oct-2014 2:13 pm, "Michael Shigorin" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>         Hello,
> please do pay attention to regression testing for innovative
> bells and especially whistles as the "new and improved" progress
> bar quickly becomes annoying if the filename is longer than the
> part of the line before percent meter: the new code tries to
> scroll it (this alone might be irritating to some including
> myself) and for some cases fails to do that properly falling into
> "spam out a new line every cycle" in xterm with an UTF-8 locale.

Adding the filename was important for some of the other features that we
are currently planning on for future releases of Wget. Some people want the
filename to scroll, others find it irritating. We set scrolling as the
default, but a new option, --no-scroll has also been added for people who
would prefer the progress bar not have a scrolling filename.
You could set it in your wgetrc file to add the option globally.

>
> e.g.,
>
> $ LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 wget -c
http://fly.osdn.org.ua/~mike/iso/rescue/live-rescue-20141027-x86_64.iso
> --2014-10-28 00:28:44--
http://fly.osdn.org.ua/~mike/iso/rescue/live-rescue-20141027-x86_64.iso
> Распознаётся fly.osdn.org.ua (fly.osdn.org.ua)... 212.40.45.6
> Подключение к fly.osdn.org.ua (fly.osdn.org.ua)|212.40.45.6|:80...
соединение установлено.
> HTTP-запрос отправлен. Ожидание ответа... 200 OK
> Длина: 620756992 (592M) [application/octet-stream]
> Сохранение в: <<live-rescue-20141027-x86_64.iso>>
>
> -rescue-20141027-x8   0%[                      ]   1,25M  1,57MB/s
> rescue-20141027-x86   0%[                      ]   1,65M  1,65MB/s
> escue-20141027-x86_   0%[                      ]   2,06M  1,71MB/s
> scue-20141027-x86_6   0%[                      ]   2,44M  1,74MB/s
> cue-20141027-x86_64   0%[                      ]   2,84M  1,78MB/s
> ue-20141027-x86_64.   0%[                      ]   3,26M  1,81MB/s
> e-20141027-x86_64.i   0%[                      ]   3,68M  1,84MB/s
> ^C
>
I'm currently traveling, but will take a look into what causes this issue
as soon as I can. Having a stable release of Wget is our main priority.
> while disabling l18n would result in most of the spam missing:
>
> $ LANG=C wget -c
http://fly.osdn.org.ua/~mike/iso/rescue/live-rescue-20141027-x86_64.iso
> converted '
http://fly.osdn.org.ua/~mike/iso/rescue/live-rescue-20141027-x86_64.iso'
(ANSI_X3.4-1968) -> '
http://fly.osdn.org.ua/~mike/iso/rescue/live-rescue-20141027-x86_64.iso'
(UTF-8)
> --2014-10-28 00:30:09--
http://fly.osdn.org.ua/~mike/iso/rescue/live-rescue-20141027-x86_64.iso
> Resolving fly.osdn.org.ua (fly.osdn.org.ua)... 212.40.45.6
> Connecting to fly.osdn.org.ua (fly.osdn.org.ua)|212.40.45.6|:80...
connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 620756992 (592M) [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: 'live-rescue-20141027-x86_64.iso'
>
> live-rescue-2014102   0%[                      ]   4.55M  1.89MB/s
> ^C
>
> ...but adding the "conversion" spam.
>
This is being caused due to some other idn fixes. I'll see if it can be
prevented.

> Guys, please do RCs or whatever to avoid brown paper bag effects
> in products that were mature years ago.  I love you and thank for
> your work but please please don't feel cool, people depend on wget.
>
We would generally release a beta version before making a new release.
However, we were forced to make an urgent release this time around due to a
security issue coming up that had to be fixed immediately.

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