On 12 May 2013 04:30, Lokesh Walase <[email protected]> wrote: > I am interested in adding "progress bar" feature to "cp" and "mv" commands. > For this I downloaded the latest source code GNU-coreutils-8.21. > > I have fair knowledge of "C" and can understand the code. > > However the code is too big and I m right now confused as to what to do or > where to start from, or what should I read and which part of code I should > focus. > > Is this too ambitious to start with ? > > Kindly guide me.
Hi Lokesh, I am not a maintainer, but I would find it surprising if progress bar would be accepted this time. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-12/msg00120.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2010-09/msg00052.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-08/msg00015.html But perhaps something could be done with the proposal. Would it make sense to add 'rejected feature requests' section to http://www.pixelbeat.org/patches/coreutils/inbox_apr_2013.html and have a link to latest summary in README.hacking? IMHO the rejected section should contain only features which has already been discussed couple times, such as the progress bar in cp or mv. -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
