Re: [Bug-wget] broken progressbar in 1.16

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Michael Shigorin <address@hidden> writes:

>       Hello,
> please do pay attention to regression testing for innovative
> bells and especially whistles as the "new and improved" progress
> bar quickly becomes annoying if the filename is longer than the
> part of the line before percent meter: the new code tries to
> scroll it (this alone might be irritating to some including
> myself) and for some cases fails to do that properly falling into
> "spam out a new line every cycle" in xterm with an UTF-8 locale.
>
> Guys, please do RCs or whatever to avoid brown paper bag effects
> in products that were mature years ago.  I love you and thank for
> your work but please please don't feel cool, people depend on wget.

don't you think you are a bit exaggerating for the minor issue you have
reported?

We put a lot of effort to not break backward compatibility, except when
are forced to do it (like for CVE-2014-4877 that we had to change a
default setting), but we cannot promise that we have no regressions
between releases.

Thanks,
Giuseppe