On 1 December 2016 at 18:10, Drup <drupyog+c...@zoho.com> wrote: > >> I'm now wondering: what was the rationale for having `mirage describe` >> vs `mirage help` at all? >> Maybe it would be better to incorporate the tty-output options of >> `describe` into the `help` output, and have `mirage describe` only >> produce the `--dot` output using the cached result of `mirage >> configure` if available, or not if not? > > > "mirage help" describes the tool. In particular, it works without a config > file. > > "mirage describe" describes the unikernel. It only works with a config file. > > We must be careful about error modes without/without a config file: they are > already quite a nightmare currently, and I'm a bit wary of merging these two > commands, as it'll only make things worse.
Ok that makes sense, agree. > Making --eval when the unikernel has already been configured sounds fine to > me, as long as we get the opposite option. :) +1 :) -- Richard Mortier richard.mort...@cl.cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ MirageOS-devel mailing list MirageOS-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel