On Wed, 04 Jun 2014, Colin Ian King wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com> > > * Package name : sluice > Version : 0.01.00 > Upstream Author : Colin King <colin.k...@canonical.com> > * URL : http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/sluice > * License : GPL-2+ > Programming Lang: C > Description : rate limiting data piping tool > > Sluice reads from standard input and write to standard > output at a specified data rate. This can be useful > for benchmarking and exercising I/O streaming at desired > throughput rates.
We already have the "pv" package, which does all of that and more, and that's in the absolutely ancient version in Debian/Ubuntu. Does "sluice" have relevant differences or advantages over "pv" ? Looks like we could use a more active maintainer for pv, though. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140604121421.gc30...@khazad-dum.debian.net
