On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Dwight Engen wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2014 17:09:02 +0200 > Stéphane Graber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:30:15PM +0800, Sheng Yong wrote: > > > Hi, all > > > > > > These 4 patches create interactive interface for lxc-create. > > > lxdialog and mconf are used directly from linux kernel. mconf and > > > corresponding config file are installed at $datadir/lxc/scripts/. > > > > > > '-m | --menuconfig' option forks a new task and executes mconf. > > > After menuconfig, a default .config file is saved at the current > > > directory. lxc-create reads and parses .config, then fills the > > > lxc_arguments. > > > > > > thanks, > > > shyodx > > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry for the long delay, it took me a while to make up my mind about > > this. > > > > So long story short, we won't be including this work in LXC at this > > point. The main reason for this is that this is a rather big change, > > which will require ongoing maintenance (whenever a template is added > > or changes) for what feels like pretty low gain, our users typically > > are either happy to call lxc-create again with the needed arguments > > or will create a base container and then just lxc-clone it. > > > > It's always hard to reject a new feature especially when it's clear > > that you've spent quite a bit of time working on this but I think > > keeping LXC simple in that regard is the right move for now. > > > > Nacked-by: Stéphane Graber <[email protected]> > > Stéphane, I agree with your reasoning. Just thought I'd point out that > Sheng may have done this because it was in the TODO file, which makes > it a bit more unfortunate :( I had no idea this was in there, but I guess > its been there since 2009, so maybe we should take it out of there :) > > -->8 > >
Oh, yeah, that'd explain it, I apparently never looked at that TODO or I'd have dropped it a while ago... I guess that made sense in Daniel's mind back when he started to work on LXC and was the author for all templates, doesn't really apply nowadays... > Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen <[email protected]> Acked-by: Stéphane Graber <[email protected]> > --- > TODO | 6 ------ > 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 TODO > > diff --git a/TODO b/TODO > deleted file mode 100644 > index 56d5056..0000000 > --- a/TODO > +++ /dev/null > @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ > - > - > -* create an interactive configuration with the lxc-create command > - line, like the 'make menuconfig' of the kernel. > - > - = lxc-create [-n foo] -m|--menuconfig > -- > 1.9.0 > > _______________________________________________ > lxc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-devel -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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