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[Gnu-arch-users] Archive namespace usability (was: Online book for usabi
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David Allouche |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Archive namespace usability (was: Online book for usability) |
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Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:21:52 +0200 |
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:49:32PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> my-default-archive is merely an arch-internal CVSROOT equivalent.
>
> What I'd really like, instead of that, is aliases for archives. Add an
> --alias option to register-archive, which allows you to specify an alias
> name. For simplicity, aliases probably shouldn't be allowed to be valid
> archive names.
>
> I'm quite sure I'm not the only one that would find this useful. Specifying
> an archive by it's full name is an RSI-inducing experience. Of course, it
> can be simulated with environment vars, but I think it'd be worth including.
> After all, most Arch operations could be done with a handful of commands --
> the rest is just cream...
I consider the whole "archive namespace input" problem to be a deep and
far-reaching issue in the CLI of the tla.
There are two sides to the solution I envision for this problems:
* Good defaults
my-default-archive is really limited, and often error-inducing
because it is global and context-unsensitive. Many commands could
infer default archive and version from the current tree in a way
which is both predictable and convenient.
It is easy to just say that, but at least it points at what I think
is the problem. Proposing a complete solution would be a delicate
and time-consuming task which I do not have the time to undertake
now. And selling that solution to Tom is a another time consuming
task. I hope I will be able to collaborate with Aaron Bentley on
pyarch, or on another similar solution, in order to provide a useful
solution in the form of working code.
* A powerful alias system
Some time ago a wrote a extensive design in the hope to address this
many-sided problem in its entirety. Unfortunately, it generated no
feedback.
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-04/msg00386.html
Comments are still more than welcome.
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-- ddaa
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Tom Lord, 2004/06/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Pierce T . Wetter III, 2004/06/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/06/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Matthew Palmer, 2004/06/25
- [Gnu-arch-users] Archive namespace usability (was: Online book for usability),
David Allouche <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Archive namespace usability (was: Online book for usability), Matthew Palmer, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Archive namespace usability, Aaron Bentley, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Colin Walters, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Matthew Palmer, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Tom Lord, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Matthew Dempsky, 2004/06/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Juliusz Chroboczek, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, James Blackwell, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Jani Monoses, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, James Blackwell, 2004/06/25