On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 23:58 -0400, Robert Myers wrote:
> > And perhaps you should share your wisdom with every programmer who's
> > written an installer that shows progress reports. I'm sure they'll
> be
> > glad to know they're wasting their time.
> >
>
> Of *course* you can try to imagine what the end user will experience
> and make it as reasonable as possible.

Which is precisely what the OP asked for.

> In practice, you can't imagine every eventuality.

Which the OP did not ask for.

We're done here.

You like the last word, no matter your insight.  So be it.  It's the way the world works.

Robert.