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

[John Arbash Meinel]

Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> 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
> 

Sounds reasonable to me.

John
=:->

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