Re: progress and eta feature request

[Ole Tange]

I have added "See also: --eta" to the man page section on --progress.
Hope that will help others not miss it.

/Ole

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Remik Ziemlinski
<remik.ziemlinski@gmail.com> wrote:
> "--eta" works for me!  Missed it in the manpage...  BTW, if anyone is
> swamped with deadlines and C++, check out my three  progress bars at
> http://ezprogressbar.sourceforge.net/.  Thanks everyone,
>
> Remik
>
> On 6/13/2011 2:27 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Mag Gam wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Ole Tange wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Remik Ziemlinski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> When I use the current progress indicator, it only shows how many tasks
>>>>> completed, and the percentage always shows 100%.  Instead, I wish the
>>>>> percentage reported the ratio of complete vs. incomplete tasks.
>>>>
>>>> I do not think that ratio would be very good: For 1000 jobs it would
>>>> start out as 0/1000 and end with 1000/0.
>>>
>>> Won't it be 1000/1000?
>>
>> Not in the literal interpretation of the request: "I wish the percentage
>> reported the ratio of complete vs. incomplete tasks".  I think the intended
>> meaning, though, was how you interpreted it:  ratio of complete vs. total
>> tasks.
>>
>