From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:34:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] more compact progress display
Message-ID: <20071018083437.GA302@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710171653500.19446@xanadu.home>

On 2007-10-17 16:56:09 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Karl Hasselström wrote:
>
> > Maybe an env variable could cause the code to emit
> > machine-friendly progress information instead?
>
> That won't help with remotely generated progress unaware of local
> env variable, and the remote server might still be generating old
> format.

Ah, I didn't realize the progress meter was generated on the remote
side. Sorry for the noise.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle