On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 22:27 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 August 2010, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 18:51 +0000, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > repoquery.py   |    2 +-
> > > 
> > >  yum-utils.bash |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > >  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > New commits:
> > > commit 36757075f0954cdcc13216186337c96c27083929
> > > Author: Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi>
> > > Date:   Wed Aug 4 21:51:13 2010 +0300
> > > 
> > >     Add repoquery --lookaside bash completion.
> > 
> > Is there a bash_completion parser for optparser so that you don't have
> > to do these all the time?
> 
> Upstream bash-completion does have a few helpers that try to grab (long) 
> options from --help output.  It's better than nothing, but it has obviously 
> no 
> way of knowing what options a long option might take (for example --lookaside 
> needs a repo id) and it covers only long options (so non-option arguments 
> would not be covered) so some manual maintenance would be required anyway.  
> And using that stuff would mean introducing a dependency on upstream bash-
> completion or shipping a copy of those helpers.
> 
> It's no problem for me to update/maintain the completion files, nor do I 
> think 
> it's such a big deal if some newly added options fall through the cracks in 
> some releases if I don't manage to update stuff in time.  Dropping a note to 
> me or on list a few days before intended yum/yum-utils/createrepo release 
> dates would help with that...

okay - I just didn't want you thinking of it as drudgery. 

thanks for maintaining them.

-sv


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