Re: [Caml-list] [RFC] new OPAM command-line interface

[Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>]

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Hi. The new interface is nice! A couple of minor comments:

When you have sub-commands, I think it's best to make the options come
after the last sub-command. The synopsis for opam switch suggests you can
put options before the second sub-command. This might be okay if the option
really relates to the first sub-command, but I don't see that in this case.

I'm not a fan of having too many names for the same thing. For example, in
opam switch, there is "add = install, rm = remove, and show = current".
Better to just pick one. The single letter -o and longer --option is okay,
especially for highly used options.

Thanks.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@ocamlpro.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In order to prepare the beta release of OPAM (which should hopefully be
> announced at the end of next week if everything goes well), I've been
> working on improving its command-line interface (which is currently a bit
> had-hoc). Thanks to the great Daniel Bunzli's cmdliner[1] library, I now
> have a nice -- but incompatible -- command-line interface in the 'cmdliner'
> branch[2].
>
> The main changes are:
> * an uniform help interface, where all flags and parameters are correctly
> documents
> * no more -long-option, only -s or --long
> * 'opam remote' is still there for convenience but will be deprecated; use
> 'opam repository' instead
> * use of sub-sub-commands when necessary (ie. 'opam repository add')
> * use non-ambiguous prefix of sub-command instead of the subcommand (ie.
> 'opam repo' or 'opam rem')
> * AND: a nice 'opam --help' and 'opam <subcommand> --help' output
>
> I'm quite keen to get community feedback on this new command-line. Feel
> free to comment here, or to to use the issue tracker[3].
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>
> [1] http://erratique.ch/software/cmdliner
> [2] git clone -b cmdliner git://github.com/OCamlPro/opam.git
> [3] https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues/157
>
>
>
>
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