Hi, On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Aaron Bentley <aa...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 11-08-08 10:38 AM, Jamu Kakar wrote: >> This sounds a lot like a library I wrote some time ago called >> Commandant. It's a wrapper around bzrlib that let's you easily write >> applications with a Bazaar-like user experience. > > It's not surprising, since I've done so much hacking on bzr. But I've > long thought that the command classes of bzrlib were somewhat redundant, > since they only exist to house the "run" method. I think that functions > are a better match for subcommands. Unlike bzrlib, script_commands > doesn't require declaring options or their types. It's just less friction.
I agree. I've often wondered about building something simpler from scratch. At the time I implemented Commandant it was much easier/faster for me to build on bzrlib than start from scratch. I was also curious about learning more about bzrlib, which I did. I was also interested in being able to expose the ability for people to write plugins for Commandant-based applications, but I've never actually needed it, and so haven't done anything about it. >> It might be >> interesting if you want to go further and add topics, run shell >> scripts, etc.: > > I've no doubt Commandant provides a more polished user experience. I > didn't think that was important for utility scripts, but maybe it is. > Perhaps we should consider using it for our scripts. Certainly, > anything that helps us avoid writing the same old boilerplate for our > utility scripts is a win. The Landscape team has a tool called landscape-devel that builds on Commandant and exposes many commands that are useful during development. At Fluidinfo we have a similar thing that is more focused on operations, and it also works very well. Whether or not you use Commandant, I do think that having nice tools for development and operations-related activities is important. In general, software teams tend do a poor job with these kind of tools because we don't plan enough time for them and they get pushed to the bottom of the priority list pretty fast. Thanks, J. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
