[MERGE] test-progress-bars

[Aaron Bentley]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:39 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 
>>Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:02 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I don't like the idea, because you won't see skipped tests and failed 
>>>>tests this way. 
>>>
>>>
>>>Skipped tests are still visible in -v mode, and failed tests are all
>>>displayed at the end of the test run with their tracebacks, as normal.
>>
>>The current display is nice and compact.  To me, seeing
>>success/skip/failure is more valuable than knowing exactly what stage
>>we're at.
> 
> 
> We are talking about the same S/./F single character display aren't we ?

I thought you were proposing to eliminate that, and so the only way to 
know whether tests were passing, skipping or failing would be via the 
verbose output.  (which is much too verbose for at-a-glance assessment.)

Aaron