On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 00:11 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > Rather than the Sisyphean task of giving all the appropriate utilities > machine-parseable progress interface, I instead suggest that we study > the current progress interfaces and try to identify some common factors > that can be parsed heuristically (e.g. solid bar of characters; > "\-/|"-style spinner; percentage output), and write a wrapper utility > that can translate some of the common ones into debconf progress output. [...]
I have trouble believing that this is going to be easier than patching the most common utilities to add an option for a machine-readable progress indicator. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
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