Open Stack

How does this blueprint play into this client.  Is it a separate admin
only client or just a subset of this guy?

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/admin-cli

-matt

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Dean Troyer <dtroyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Adam Spiers <aspiers at suse.com> wrote:
>> As of my recent patch, --help is contextual in nova:
>
> I hadn't seen that yet...
>
>> and I have started work on some of the other commands too, so it would
>> be helpful if we could reach a consensus on this soon ... although
>> please let me know if I am wasting my time working on other commands
>> due to any imminent rewrites using python-openstack!
>
> The continued existence of the project-specific commands is really up
> to the projects themselves.  I think it would be great to converge
> them on things like this, but trying to get them all to work the same
> is what led us to openstackclient due to backward compatibility and
> all.  My guess would be that the existing client binaries would live
> through the 'G' release even if we decided to deprecate them now.
>
>> I agree with Dolph - there is a precedent from other well-known
>> programs (git, hg, svn are the first ones I can think of) for --help
>> to behave differently depending on whether or not it was preceded by a
>> subcommand.  So my vote is that we should definitely aim to adhere to
>> this pattern.
>
> How about detailing it in the HIG and once we get a command or two
> implemented with argument parsing we give it a shot?
>
> dt
>
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>
> Dean Troyer
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