Use ProgressMeter.jl?

[juliohm]

Have you considered ProgressMeter.jl to show the download progress? It would be a nice feature.

[oxinabox]

This is a problem for HTTP.jl.
It is a question of HTTP.download and how that displays its progress.

[juliohm]

You prefer to improve the HTTP.download progress display than to use ProgressMeter.jl, is that correct?

Really nice package btw!

[oxinabox]

You prefer to improve the HTTP.download progress display than to use ProgressMeter.jl, is that correct?

Something like that yes, because it faces all users of HTTP.download.
not just DataDeps.

It maybe the conclusion of JuliaWeb/HTTP.jl#537
is that the package using HTTP.download should do some configuration of the logging.
In which case we can open an issue about that.

[oxinabox]

Really nice package btw! I've just downloaded a tar.gz, I wonder if there is any functionality to unpack the archive directly in the produced DataDep folder.

the unpack function.

you can add post_fetch_method = unpack to the datadeps registration block