Re: [PATCH] build: Improve information density and appearance of download progress output.

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Steve Sprang <address@hidden> writes:

> This patch adds Arch/pacman style output when invoking 'guix
> download'.
>
> Previous output:
> $ guix download ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.0.11.tar.gz
> starting download of `/tmp/guix-file.IgqbP2' from
> `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.0.11.tar.gz'...
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/.../guile-2.0.11.tar.gz 29.6% of 7339.9 KiB (781.
> KiB/s)
>
> Patched output:
> $ guix download ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.0.11.tar.gz
> starting download of `/tmp/guix-file.ULgbny' from
> `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.0.11.tar.gz'...
> guile-2.0.11.tar.gz 7.2MiB 1.1MiB/s 00:00:02 [####### ] 36.6%
>
> -Steve

Neat.  Please make sure it's compatible with dumb (non-)terminals like
M-x shell in Emacs though.

Taylan