On 14 Mar 2002, Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > timeconfig-3.2.5-1.i386.rpm > 158253 100% 160.48kB/s 0:00:00 > timidity++-2.10.4-2.i386.rpm > 9309389 100% 397.71kB/s 0:00:22 > tix-8.2.0b1-67.i386.rpm > 456809 100% 437.78kB/s 0:00:01 > tk-8.3.3-67.i386.rpm > 1371196 100% 433.77kB/s 0:00:03
Good in concept. The current output does look a bit dumb. I'd like to take a broader look at our progress reporting. Since we have the whole file list, in theory we know not only about progress through the current file, but also progress in the overall tree. Perhaps something like the output from Debian's apt, if you know that. I'm wondering about a --machine-readable option that produces status output in a way that can be easily parsed by scripts or GUIs and that allows room for extension without breaking existing scripts. At the moment I'm leaning toward an rfc822-like plain text format with tags at the start of each line, and encouragement to parsers to ignore lines they do not understand. File-Begin: timeconfig-3.2.5-1.i386.rpm File-Size: 158253 Progress: 4000 Progress: 8000 ... File-Complete: timeconfig-3.2.5-1.i386.rpm etcetera I guess somebody is going to say "XML" at this point, but it does seem more complex. -- Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
