On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 02:45:41AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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.
I have no such trouble; we're going to need a wrapper to translate into the debconf protocol *anyway*, and having it understand a few different syntaxes is not that troublesome. IME getting the file descriptor plumbing right on these things is usually the most fiddly part. :-) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121217094750.gi21...@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk
