Commit ef7ad819e2d2b8421c9703c276711022bf807217 - cdebconf

Update the doc on progress bars r3064 Martin Sjögren 20 years ago

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27	27	- xml
28	28	- Oracle
29	29	* Better API documentation
30		* Progress bars (not yet in debconf spec). tentatively this will be driven
31		by commands like:
32		PROGRESS START <min> <max> <title>
33		PROGRESS STEP <step>
34		PROGRESS STOP
35	30
36	31	Long term:
37	32	* transactions

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25	25	PROGRESS START <min> <max> <title-template>
26	26	PROGRESS SET <val>
	27	PROGRESS STEP <inc>
27	28	PROGRESS INFO <info-template>
28	29	PROGRESS STOP
29	30
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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	31	Now that libdebconf is scrapped in favour of libdebconfclient and
	32	everything's incompatible with each other anyway :) I thought I'd get down
	33	to implementing this. Also added the progress step as per Petter
	34	Reinholdtsen's suggestion below.
34	35
35	36	-Martin
	37
36	38
37	39	It will be easier to use progress bars in shell scripts (less code to
38	40	write) if the script don't have to keep track of the current progress