i guess then i thought like "ok, what if you could configure the types of rules/weights/whatever you see when pants visualizes progress in pants.ini?" and that seemed neat and then it also seemed like another place you could effectively use a unified query method e.g.

--task-progress-display-weights="[('select', 'c-compile', 100), ('select', 'zinc-compile', 200)]"

to that you want zinc compilation to go to the top of progress displays, and c compilation as well, but less. expanding then what kinds of selectors are available (more than just

'select'

) and potentially expanding what you can specify as a weight for other types of ordering is interesting to think about (not thinking of being able to or wanting to do this as necessarily happening anytime soon)