[MERGE] test-progress-bars

[Martin Pool]

On 11 May 2006, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 11:24 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > To me the biggest drawback of using a progressbar is that it may
> > obscure
> > any incidental output.  There shouldn't be any, but if there is I'd
> > want
> > to see it. 
> 
> What sort of output are you thinking? The output will generally do what
> the current stuff does: append to the right hand side of the current
> progress bar and bounce to a new line, which means its there,
> unobscured.

OK.

-v continues to work just as it does at the moment, and is much more
useful for people who want to see about tests that skipped or failed as
you go along.  So I'd like to put this in.

-- 
Martin