[pacman-dev] output issues status

[Xavier]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 04:29:58PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 4:20 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Since Aaron promised restoring the padding way in 3 lines, I couldn't really
> > compete with that ;), and besides 3.0 already has a sample implementation.
> > So I tried exploring the delayed output way instead, and hacked something
> > together in ~50 lines. It's very ugly and hackish, but it's just meant as a
> > proof of concept, because I'm not even sure the idea is right.
> 
> Hah, yeah I actually assumed some sort of vasprintf-esque function, so
> I would have counted that too.
> 
> Still, I think that for the time being a "hackish" solution is best
> (even though this one is pretty good), because we just need to do some
> cleanup to get 3.1 out the door.
> 
> I like it.
> 

Oh, ok then. Let's see if this "hackish" solution is also good enough for
Dan, and then the eventual cleanup / refactoring / renaming that needs to be
done, as well as commenting this hack in the code.

I originally tried to base the detection of the progress bar in cb_trans_evt,
based on the events sent before and after the progress bar.
But there were the different upgrade / add / remove cases to consider, and it
looked a bit messy.
So I tried to move it at the end of cb_trans_progress, based on the "int
percent" argument, and it turned out to be easier, and better factored for
the different cases.

Anyway, I wasn't familiar with this part of the code at all, so this hack
should be carefully reviewed before being considered to be merged :)