I think the point is that the steamcmd command line tool isn't very intuitive to use. As you say, content providers use it too to manage their games on steam, and I can't imagine that they have any less difficulties with it than some of us have had. That said, once you make a few scriptfiles and call them instead of using steamcmd interactively it isn't that bad. But tabcompletion of commands would be very welcome, for example.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Saul Rennison <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, deal with it. > > > steamcmd wasn't made soley for updating games, it also exists for managing > Steam games at the backend, hence the command-line interface. I believe > Didrole made a steamcmd replacement that has an older syntax. > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Andre Müller <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Please, please no hldsupdatetool syntax again. I think this is a step >> backward (steamcmd also). There are enough examples to make a good unix >> like commandline tool. >> On Jul 16, 2013 5:34 PM, "Ook" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Loloz..well, SteamCMD user interface, such as it is, is a freakin' kluge. >>> It is cryptic and difficult to use, sparsely documented, and when it >>> doesn't work there is no indication given that it did not work, it just >>> quietly tells you success! but your files are not there. How many people >>> come here going how the hell do I get this stupid thing to work? Valve >>> needs to gut the current interface and start from scratch, make it >>> backwards compatible with hldsupdatetool syntax, and add some verbose >>> status and error messages. And fix the parsing of command line options. Do >>> I put quotes here, do I put them there? SteamCMD should not be so difficult >>> to use, it is far worse than hldsupdatetool ever was. >>> >>> On 07/15/2013 10:57 PM, Marcel wrote: >>> >>>> This is really such an annoying "feature"/"bug". Making a command line >>>> tool without properly thinking how admins could use it. >>>> >>>> Is it so abstract to use linux for file distribution of windows server >>>> files? WTF is wrong with you valve? I can't count how many lifetime this >>>> fu**** steamcmd cost me. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> - Marcel >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> 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<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 > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
