[PATCH] use KB instead of kB for traffic counters

[Jean-Francois Roy]

On Mar 18, 2009, at 16:58, Martin Pool wrote:

> I'm ok with K and K/s.  Saving a little space so we have more for the
> actual progress text is worthwhile.  In the info output space is not a
> concern so I think Alexander's KB is good.
>
> The user doesn't necessarily need to know what the arrows mean.  It's
> a blinkenlight.  It may be useful to Bazaar developers or people may
> gradually get to know what the patterns mean.
>
> Eventually as we improve the progress text it should give a more
> meaningful description of what's going on.

One issue that no one has raised so far is that of the "lowest common  
denominator" approach that has underlined the discussion so far.  
Indeed, although I'm sure some people still run 80 character wide  
consoles, I rarely do. My typical terminal window is usually 150 if  
not 200 characters wide.

With that in mind, I think scalability should be considered. Bazaar  
could have a "long" progress line format where for example appropriate  
unit suffixes and the words "up" and "down" for throughput are used to  
convey unambiguously the relevant information. And, when detecting a  
more constrained limit on line width, use a compact format that  
remains as clear as possible.