Best suggestion i've eved read. Full ack with Jessolina! Am 20.02.2013 07:30 schrieb "Jesse Molina" <[email protected]>:
> > Dear Valve > > Please accept the following feedback for consideration. This feedback is > specifically limited to usage of the SteamCMD interface on GNU/Linux. > > > > Please document command usage for SteamCMD. There doesn't seem to be any. > > There is this document here, but it does not document the various options > and parameters which can be used with SteamCMD: > https://developer.**valvesoftware.com/wiki/**SteamCMD<https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD> > > If I do a "./steamcmd --help", nothing useful happens, which is probably > the first thing an educated administrator might do. > > Exit codes? Document them. > > > > Please stop trying to use the binary itself as a means of documentation. > Documentation is documentation. The binary isn't. I should not have to > type "help arg1", "help arg2", "help arg2 subarg1" et-cetera on the > interactive menu-driven interface to find out how to use the app. I can't > imagine how painful this must be to implement and keep up to date. > > > > Should I be using the steamcmd.sh script, or steam.sh, or just call the > steamcmd binary directly? steamcmd.sh magically appeared recently, and > nobody really knows why because you didn't communicate this change with > your user base. Those of us who had been using steam.sh, found it stopped > working because you changed it and we don't understand why. Looking at the > header comments does not make it apparent how these scripts are to be used > and why each is different. Please improve communications when changes > occur. > > > > Design suggestion: Please stop trying to make SteamCMD an interactive > command-line interface. These are bad, sad, and wrong. Pros hate > interfaces like this because they are slow and painful and feel like they > were written to be a crutch for stupid people. Noobs can't use them > because a mouse isn't involved. Thus, you piss off everyone and spend a > lot of effort doing it. Why did you feel that bash needed to be replaced? > Do you really hate readline so much that you needed to re-implement it? > Something about those who feel the need to reinvent unix are condemned > to... yea. > > > > While I appreciate this; > https://developer.**valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_**Application_IDs<https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_Application_IDs> > > How's about a "./steamcmd --listappids", like the old "./steam -command > list"? > > > > Please stop littering log files all over the place. I've already got a > steam.log file sitting in the steamcmd dir, and then you've got a logs > directory, which apparently wasn't good enough for this one log file. And > then there's that ~/Steam/logs/stderr.txt thing. Am I going to have to > write a cleanup script just to clean up these logfiles? And for F*ks sake, > why would you name your log files "*_log.txt" instead of just .log??? > > > > Thanks for your consideration. > > > > Fletcher Dunn wrote: > >> The orangebox engine games (Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike:Source, Day >> of Defeat:Source, HL2:Deathmatch) are being upgraded to SteamPipe. >> Steam’s new-and-improved content delivery system. SteamPipe is >> currently used by most games on Steam. >> >> This change will impact server operators in at least two significant ways: >> >> ·You will use steamcmd instead of the HLDSUpdateTool to install/update >> the server. >> >> ·The conversion will entail significant changes to the way the files >> appear in the local filesystem on the server and client. The client no >> longer uses GCF files. Instead, most assets are packed up into VPK, and >> those VPKs are the same on the server and the client. The server no >> longer uses 1000’s of loose files. >> >> We’re using the TF beta to test these changes and identify the bugs, and >> give everybody a chance to make sure their favorite mod or plugin will >> work in the new system. >> >> Everybody is encouraged to download the TF beta! >> >> We’ve prepared an FAQ that discusses the details of the change and >> answers the questions we anticipate: >> >> https://support.steampowered.**com/kb_article.php?ref=7388-**QPFN-2491<https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7388-QPFN-2491> >> >> Please report gameserver related bugs in this mailing list. >> >> Client bugs can be reported through this mailing list, or in the TF beta >> forum. >> >> http://forums.steampowered.**com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=**1038<http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1038> >> >> Thanks for your help, and happy testing! >> >> (And remember, playtime in the beta counts towards item drops in the >> release game.) >> >> - Fletch >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> hlds_announce mailing list >> hlds_announce@list.**valvesoftware.com<[email protected]> >> https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_announce<https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_announce> >> >> > -- > # Jesse Molina > # Mail = [email protected] > # Cell = 1-602-323-7608 > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_linux<https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
