incrementing vs setting progress

[tcurdt]

The increment only or relative interface feels a little awkward for some use cases. Is there a particular reason not to allow for setting the absolute value of the progress?

[vbauerster]

Can you please elaborate on your use case? 95% of use cases is to increment because of io.Reader and io.Writer.

[tcurdt]

I had a producer/consumer setup that was already reporting statistics. So I had total number of jobs and finished jobs. I could either read the current progress value and calculate the increment to turn it into a relative value or I could pass a reference to the bar into all the consumers.
Both solutions are not really very elegant.

[vbauerster]

Sorry for late reply, I've implemented this in set-current branch.
Can you please check, if it's ok for your needs?

[tcurdt]

Looks good!