Thomas Krause wrote:
> Hey,
>
> You should take a look at the thread "Calling si_addclients without
> '--ip-range'" in sisuite-users, where I proposed different solutions to the
> problem.
>
> Andrea preferred the escape character solution because its more backward
> compatible.
True.
>
> While I personally don't care about that (I just started using SI), I can
> imagine that simply changing the delimiter from one version to the other
> could cause problems for some users.
>
> Other than that I would agree with you that using some other delimiter would
> be the cleanest solution (although I also don't like the --delimiter
> solution, that Andrea suggested).
>
> Maybe we should allow both delimiters ('-' and ':') for a few versions
> (encouraging the user to use ':'), before disabling the '-' delimiter.
>
I think the '-' character fits perfectly as a delimiter to specify ranges... I
know that for a machine the best solution should be to use something not allowed
in the domain of the hostnames, but thinking at the humans (read:
user-interface) IMHO it's better to go to a most intuitive solution.
So, the escape solution seems to be the good compromise, both for user interface
and backward compatibility.
Thomas, for now I'll merge your patch in my recent work that implements the
concept of groups in si_psh, si_pcp, si_addclients, etc. The patch is still
locally in my repository, but I'll check the complete code soon in the trunk.
BTW I'd also like to hear other opinions, objections or proposal of better
solutions if there are...
Thanks,
-Andrea
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