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.
poc