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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] sorcery menu changes
  • Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:00:16 -0800

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:11:41PM -0800, Jason Flatt wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 January 2006 12:39, Andrew wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:11:39PM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > I almost always use the CLI. Is the CLI in for planned updates as well
> > > (e.g. all options use -- (e.g. sorcery --queue and cast --queue instead
> > > of sorcery queue and cast --queue))?
> >
> > huh?
>
> What he means is that the command line options should follow accepted
> practices for CLI programs, like this:
>
> -h | --help | help Display this help screen
>
> and not this:
>
> -q | queue Compare installed grimoire to installed spells,
> generate queue of spells needing to be updated.
>
> In other words, he's saying that the following (as an example):
>
> -s | system-update Perform a system update (updates sorcery, grimoire,
> and spells).
> [ scribe update, sorcery queue, cast --queue ]
>
> should be changed like so:
>
> -s | --system-update Perform a system update (updates sorcery, grimoire,
> and spells).
>
> For some history:
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2410
>

I see, thanks for the info. I tend to think of them as 'sub-commands',
like how in p4 we have p4 edit and not p4 --edit. For what I was refering
to, I meant something like this:

sorcery feature voyeur off
or
sorcery optimization arch pentium4

** note these examples are just for the sake of example and are not set
in stone, a future thread will discuss them in more detail **

Of course, people will always have different ideas on stuff. Is the
system-update feature a sorcery sub-command? or an option to the
sorcery tool?

Following tradition we should now start a long verbose thread on the topic
without any real progress, then have it abruptly end without resolution.

:-)

-Andrew

P.S. if anyone out there reading this has any real-world experience in
usability and/or ui design please contact me or join in the discussion.

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