tracer wrote:
> Thursday, Thursday, September 02, 1999, you wrote:
> GG> When actually copying the packages to disk, the percentage based
> GG> progress bar went from 0 to 100% in just 5 minutes for 500+ MB of data
> GG> (fast!).
>
> GG> However, it stayed at 100% for 15+ (another 25MB by my guesstimate)
> GG> while it finished installing several more packages.
>
> GG> Done should be done... 100% should be completion.
>
> Copying and installing isnt the same and even if it was split into 2
> bars, one for copying and one for install, its still a problem that
> any controlling program like this hasnt got a clue how long an install
> will take... Some modules are big and go fast, others are big and go
> slow... Small modules can also take much longer then others so all one
> really should be able to show is number of packages or percentage
> installed and how many to go... % DONE/Complete is unpredicatble...
Copying, Installing... One, the other or both. In either case, the
"install" provides a progress bar that goes from 0 to 100 percent.
Estimates are only estimates... Progress bars will never be 100%
accurate. -But IMO, 100% should be synonomous with done... not, just a
little bit more.
-It is just a nit-picky, low priority, low severity bug report, but I'd
rather see it stick at 99% for 15 seconds than 100%. You can't be a
little pregnant... And you can't be a little bit 100% done.
I figure it is better to fire off a bug report or request than not to do
so at all. One part of my day job is to do automated software testing
for a product my company develops. As such, when I'm coding, it's all
focused on how do I make it work. When I'm testing, nothing is ever
good enough. If it looks like a bug, smells like a bug, or vaguely
reminds me of a bug... It's my duty to report it as bug. You can always
ignore it, or put it way down on the list to revisit when the real
issues are taken care of.
Whenever I'm running an installer and I see the install nailed at 100%
for a long thing, I just have the passing personal impression that it's
a not so hot installer. For instance, have you ever paid attention to
netscape's download progress indicators? You can hit 100% and only be
20% through a download.
