Ticket #1477 (reopened)
Combine multiple binaries into "campsite-admin"
| Priority: | normal | Reporter: | paul |
|---|---|---|---|
| Severity: | feature | Assigned to: | mugur |
| Component: | Install Scripts | Status: | reopened |
| Version: | none | Resolution: | |
| Milestone: | 4.0.0 | Keywords: |
Description by paul:
Instead of having "create_instance" and "restore_instance", etc., have one binary called "campsite-admin" that takes multiple arguments, like "campsite-admin create". If "campsite-admin" is executed without a command, it will print the help. If a command is executed without arguments, it should also print the help (something which does not currently happen).
Changelog
Thu Oct 20 09:36:47 2005: Modified by mugur
- resolution set to wontfix
- status changed from new to closed
Thu Oct 20 14:57:56 2005: Modified by paul
- resolution cleared
- milestone changed from 2.4.0 to 4.0.0
- version changed from 2.3.0 to none
- status changed from closed to reopened
Ok, but lets not close it. Moving it to the far future. Anything that makes it easier to use campsite is a good thing.
Thu Oct 20 16:31:20 2005: Modified by anonymous
We also need to give these scripts names that clearly identify them with campsite (so that people don't run them by mistake). There is some good logic to naming as Paul suggested: it would be in line which cvs, svn, mysqladmin, which use syntax like
cvs add mysqladmin drop campsite svn merge ...etc
We should move to using hyphens instead of underscores as well -- much more standard way of naming files, eg update-desktop-database, and all other GNOMEish commands.
So, if you don't want to wrap them into one, fine, but at least consider changing to
campsite-create campsite-backup campsite-restore campsite-remove
...Something like that?
There are only four utilities: create_instance, remove_instance, backup_instance and restore_instance. I doubt we would gain much by having a single campsite_admin script. Instead, I would have to spend a lot of time rewriting scripts, implementing complex code for processing the multitude of parameters, instead of focusing on what is really important: new campsite features. Conclusion: IMHO it's not worth it. The current scripts work just well.