Powershell commands follow a verb-noun format for all their commands. Maintaining consistency with existing conventions with powershell is pretty important.
For convenience, Powershell also offers aliases, which can be handy. I’ve looked at other package managers, there isn’t enough consistency between them to settle on a `standard`. I don’t understand why a few extra characters in the long form is problematic when we’ll also have the abbreviated short form: coapp -i somepackage If you don’t like typing the long form, use the short ones. ? From: Olaf van der Spek [mailto:olafvds...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:57 PM To: Garrett Serack Cc: coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] New Command line interface spec Can't the PS interface use the shorter commands as well? Consistency with other pkg management interfaces is important as well. If not more important, IMO. On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Garrett Serack <garre...@microsoft.com<mailto:garre...@microsoft.com>> wrote: Well, I’m trying to keep consistency with the upcoming powershell interface for coapp (so that the command lines are equivalent). Like I said, I also want to include a ‘short’ interface that has dash-plus-single-letter shortcuts for everything. G From: Olaf van der Spek [mailto:olafvds...@gmail.com<mailto:olafvds...@gmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:49 PM To: Garrett Serack Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] New Command line interface spec Why can't install just be install? Repeating package in so many commands seems both verbose, redundant and inconsistent with apt and yum. On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Garrett Serack <garre...@microsoft.com<mailto:garre...@microsoft.com>> wrote: I just finished drafting up a new command line interface spec: https://github.com/coapp/coapp.org/wiki/New-coapp-command-line-interface Hopefully this will be a bit more consistent in usage than the old one. I’m also entertaining ideas for a ‘short’ interface (ie, using short switches instead of full words). coapp -i firefox coapp -r firefox-1.* G [Description: Description: Description: fearthecowboy]<http://fearthecowboy.com/> Garrett Serack | Microsoft Open Source Software Developer | Microsoft Corporation Office:(425)706-7939<tel:%28425%29706-7939> email/messenger: garre...@microsoft.com<mailto:garre...@microsoft.com> blog: http://fearthecowboy.com<http://fearthecowboy.com/> twitter: @fearthecowboy<http://twitter.com/fearthecowboy> I don't make the software you use; I make the software you use better on Windows. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers Post to : coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net<mailto:coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Olaf -- Olaf
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