[development] progress control (like in update.php)?

[Chris Kennedy]

According to http://drupal.org/node/124727#comment-207879 yched has done
a bit of work on it in the hopes of using it with cck. As the issue
states, it's also needed for node_access_rebuild(). Off the top of my
head it might be good for long-running cron jobs too (in safe mode).

-Chris

Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone working on refactoring the update control out of the
> update.php script to be reusable in eg. install situations? Are other in
> need of this functionality? The autolocale module would need this to be
> able to safely run on a shared host, where it is not possible to set the
> time limit (and anyway,this is the only way to provide live feedback).
> 
> As far as I see, any install profile with heavier processing needs would
> require such a progress feature, so abstracting this out for use by
> anyone would be nice.
> 
> Gabor
>