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added some docs on issues with the progress bars r2246 Martin Sjögren 21 years ago

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	0	Issues with the cdebconf progress bars
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	3	The cdebconf progress bars are currently driven by the following protocol:
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	5	PROGRESS START <min> <max> <title-template>
	6	PROGRESS STEP <inc> <info-template>
	7	PROGRESS STOP
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	11	This is wildly incompatible with what debootstrap uses, which is:
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	13	P: <curr> <max> <title-string>
	14	I: <info-string>
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	16	In debootstrap there is no concept of starting and stopping, a progress
	17	bar simply "is" and has a current and a max value. The info is decoupled
	18	from the actual stepping.
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	22	Thus, I suggest we change the protocol to something that interacts more
	23	easily with debootstrap, something like:
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	25	PROGRESS START <min> <max> <title-template>
	26	PROGRESS SET <val>
	27	PROGRESS INFO <info-template>
	28	PROGRESS STOP
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	30	The quick&dirty way would be to just overlay this, since there are no
	31	conflicts in naming, but that feels like a bad solution. I would rather rip
	32	out the current code before it gets too widely used.
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	35	-Martin