GNU bug report logs - #59975
[PATCH] guix: Show better progress bars.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org, 59975 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#59975] [PATCH] guix: Show better progress bars.
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:20:26 +0100

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Hi Guix!

The patch is pretty simple, but I'm surprised nobody bikeshedded yet :)

Thoughts?

Le 11 décembre 2022 19:00:59 GMT+01:00, Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> a écrit :
>Hi Guix!
>
>The attached patch is a small improvement on our progress bars. Instead
>of our cute ASCII art:
>
>1.2MiB/s 00:04 [###               ]  18.5%
>
>We get something a little more smooth:
>
>1.1MiB/s 00:04 ▕███               ▏  17.1%
>1.2MiB/s 00:05 ▕███▋              ▏  20.7%
>
>Using unicode characters that can represent 1/8 of a character width.
>
>I used port-encoding to detect when the output supports unicode, but
>maybe there's something more dedicated to figuring that out? When the
>port encoding is not UTF-8, we fall back to the ASCII version.
>
>Thoughts?

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