APT's progress bar does have issues though. When you shrink the terminal when the progress bar is visible, you're going to have gibberish in the terminal. That's because the terminal commands to move the cursor by lines work on visual lines, not semantic lines, so they aren't invariant under the operation of resizing the terminal window. That's a really rough area of Linux terminals: when you resize a window, the terminal is going to rewrap the lines according to semantic lines (based on line feed characters), so it's clear that all major terminals understand this distinction, but the terminal API doesn't give applications access to moving by semantic lines, so we're left with bugs like these.
I think PowerShell has the concept of progress reporting specially recognized? That sounds like a good idea. It could be used to render a GUI progress bar and leave the pipeline alone, for the objects. That's just my vague idea, since I didn't spend much time with PowerShell.
I think PowerShell has the concept of progress reporting specially recognized? That sounds like a good idea. It could be used to render a GUI progress bar and leave the pipeline alone, for the objects. That's just my vague idea, since I didn't spend much time with PowerShell.