On Sun, 6 May 2018, Stephen McDowell wrote:

> from the CONTRIBUTING guide I
> found the following TODO 22.7: remove progress meter from lib curl:
> https://curl.haxx.se/docs/todo.html#remove_progress_meter_from_libcu

Note that this is in the section of things to consider doing at "Next major
release". We can't do this without bumping the soname etc.

>> applications can and should do their own progress meters using the progress
>> callback
>
> Is this referring to `curl` the command-line tool, or is this referring to
> the developer interface?

The "internal progress meter" is the progress meter that curl shows (by
default) that is output by libcurl.

> If the intent is to remove the progress bar from `curl` the command line
> tool, then no issue is warranted.

Again: that's idea is for next major version. We're talking several years into
the future and that's just an idea, nothing that's written in stone.

But also, removing the internal progress meter would basically mean that we'd
re-implement it in the curl tool code since I think curl needs a progress
meter.

> If the progress bar is going to be kept in the `curl` command-line tool,
> then I will raise the issue explaining one way to reproduce the problem.
> Short version is that it sometimes skips the carriage return, which on
> Travis CI can lead to killed jobs.

Please do.

Just keep in mind that if you use "native" curl on travis, you probably use a
rather outdated version that very well might not work like that anymore. We
rarely have bandwidth enough to investigate problems on old versions if they
don't reproduce in the latest.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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