[rfc] why selftest -v don't use osutils.terminal_width() for formatting output?

[Alexander Belchenko]

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In bzr 0.12 and early 'selftest -v' use osutils.terminal_width() to
format report. Now it's gone.

The line in question is:

self.stream.write(self._ellipsize_to_right(name, 60))

in method report_test_start() in class VerboseTestResult.
This change introduced by
revid:mbp at sourcefrog.net-20061029065311-c0db791096b06831.

I think using hardwired value 60 to format report is not good.
But probably Martin has some strong reasons to do this?

I'd like to switch hardwired 60 to (osutils.terminal_width()-20).

Alexander

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