On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 18:38 +0000, J. Randall Owens wrote: > On 04/03/2020 18:03, Daniel Mach wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm pleased to announce start of DNF 5 development. We are planning to > > deliver a module stream or a COPR repo during Fedora 33 development for > > early adopters and tool developers and we're hoping in getting a stable > > version into Fedora 34. > > > > > > More details follow. > > > > > > We've managed to drop a lot of redundant code across the whole DNF stack > > in the past years, but we have reached a point when it's nearly > > impossible to consolidate the code any further without breaking the > > API/ABI. Especially with PackageKit being dead[1], we can't move with > > the old "libhif" API in libdnf, because making any bigger changes to > > PackageKit is clearly out of scope. > > > > [1] > > https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2019/02/14/packagekit-is-dead-long-live-well-something-else/ > > > > > > > > That's why we decided to start working on a new version of the DNF > > stack: DNF 5. And this is the plan: > > > > > > Priorities > > ---------- > > 1. Consistency, documentation and user experience is the top priority. > > 2. Compatibility on the command line level. > > 3. Compatibility on the API level. > <snip> > > In favour of 1., but going against 2., I've wanted since the YUM days to > see more consistency in the compound-word* options. E.g., --enablerepo > but --skip-broken, and I have a hard time remembering which ones get the > hyphen inbetween*, and which ones don't. Could we settle on one way or > the other, right now quite the majority are without hyphen, and > deprecate the other (but presumably enable both spellings for a good > long while, perhaps with a warning if someone spells it the old way)? > Probably not take away the old spellings as soon as DNF 5, but it might > be a good time to add the more consistent spellings.
I mean, it shouldn't be too hard to standardize on having them all work both ways, even. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
