Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (66 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 09 February 2009 15:10:32 Jan Kupec wrote:
> > No please. The class is named ByteCount and that's why prints
> > per default "B" as unit. You should not change this semantic.
>
> OK, but then why not adding the B also to the multiples (K -> KB, M ->
> MB, ...). Currently it prints B for bytes (OK), but only M for megabytes
> (i would expect MB).

Because it followes the convention used by commands like du/df.

 Manual page df(1)
   ...
   SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of     
   following:  kB  1000,  K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so 
   on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.

That's why you can't simply append a 'B' to 'M' but need the 'i' 
inbetween. From an intellctual POV it might appear right to write 'MiB' 
instead of 'M', but I suppose most people are as well fine with a 
simple 'M'. I actually don't mind, as long as the computed values are 
correct, and ByteCount per default prints byte as unit.


If we do it, we should check sw_single dialogs (esp. ncurses) to make 
shure the enlarged size fields don't get clipped.

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cu,
    Michael Andres

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