Good catch Nate.

Mark

On 27/07/16 05:08, Nate Finch wrote:
> Juju 1.x had a ton of help in the CLI, right at your fingertips:
>
> $ juju1 help topics
> azure-provider      How to configure a Windows Azure provider
> basics              Basic commands
> commands            Basic help for all commands
> constraints         How to use commands with constraints
> ec2-provider        How to configure an Amazon EC2 provider
> global-options      Options common to all commands
> glossary            Glossary of terms
> hpcloud-provider    How to configure an HP Cloud provider
> juju                What is Juju?
> juju-systems        About Juju Environment Systems (JES)
> local-provider      How to configure a local (LXC) provider
> logging             How Juju handles logging
> maas-provider       How to configure a MAAS provider
> openstack-provider  How to configure an OpenStack provider
> placement           How to use placement directives
> plugins             Show Juju plugins
> spaces              How to configure more complex networks using spaces
> topics              Topic list
> users               About users in Juju
>
> Almost all of this has been removed in 2.0:
>
> $ juju help topics
> basics          Basic Help Summary
> commands        Basic help for all commands
> global-options  Options common to all commands
> topics          Topic list
>
> There are a lot of parts of the CLI that *need* that extra level of
> documentation.  I'm all for dropping a link to the website at the
> bottom of some help docs for further info, but dropping the help
> entirely seems like a mistake.  Some things like constraints and
> placement are used in multiple commands, but there's no way to know
> from the CLI how to entire valid values for them.  Things like the
> providers are not explained anywhere in the CLI now, as far  as I can
> tell. 
>
> The plaintext docs are the easiest thing for us to update and
> maintain... they live right in our own repo and let us update them
> whenever the code updates, and they're the easiest thing for users to
> get to... let's not drop that on the floor.
>
> -Nate
>
>
>

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