On 2007.11.29. 23:53, John Stoffel wrote: >>>>>> "mark" == mark bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > mark> => I've got a plan to sit down and sketch out more consistent and clear > mark> => set of commands for manipulating bacula from the command line. > Anyone > mark> => else like the 'bcli' name? > mark> => > > mark> No! No! This will only exacerbate the problem (if one defines > mark> the problem as "multiple tools/methods, with varying > mark> documentation and different levels of support for each > mark> tool"). > > My goal is to *replace* bconsole with a better tool, which does all > that bconsole does but in a more consistent manner. And which offers > cleaner interface to the underlying bacula commands and processes.
isn't it possible to extend and improve bconsole instead of a complete rewrite ? > If you look at the source code to bconsole, the parser is very very > simplistic and doesn't have any notion of command completion, or even > the ability to give help at each level. i have wanted better cli (maybe using readline or what is it everybody else is using) for, like YEARS :) ... > Why do we have N different commands (cancel, disable, enable, run, > show, wait?) for handling jobs? It's a pain to figure out/remember > which one to use. I think it should be broken down more like: > > job <cancel|disable|enable|run|status|*> <jobid|jobname> good idea. this reminds me somewhat about lvm umbrella program that was introduced with lvm2 or so. > instead. It shrinks down the help screen, it makes it obvious that > all job related commands are grouped together, etc. ... -- Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
