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  • From: "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] sorcery menu changes
  • Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:22:00 +0100

Andrew wrote :

> 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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I'm for leaving it as is...

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