[Yum-devel] [UG] progress meters

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 21:59 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote:

> OK, I have a working progress meter thingy.  At least, I think it
> works.  This should be interpreted as some kind of double-alpha.  This
> is basically a proposed interface.  So, now I have a few questions,
> mostly about output format.  Here's what it's currently doing (trimmed
> to remove some of the files:
> 
> file_15                        512 kB    00:00:02     233 kB/s
> file_03                        1.0 MB    00:00:07     131 kB/s
> file_12                        256 kB    00:00:20      13 kB/s
> file_18                        1.0 MB    00:00:46      22 kB/s
> file_19                        1.0 MB    00:00:15      66 kB/s
> files:  19/19  100%   data: 6.1 MB/6.1 MB 100%   time: 00:01:07/00:01:07 


The text interface for bittorent does something very similar. How well
does that layout do when numbers start getting big?

-sv