[389-devel] Re: On the command line tools ....
Hi William,
I am not expert of CLI/UI so I would just comment as novice user.
389-ds 1.4, brings a brand new CLI/UI.
To be less disruptive, the web UI reuse a lot the ideas of former java
console. It allows fine tuning and shows some nasty internal details
that in the future we may want to hide to make it more user friendly.
UI using CLI, the CLI need to support those nasty details and UI relies
low-level CLI
I agree to create high-level CLI that will hide the complexity of
389-ds internals. But I do not feel it should be one or the other, we
could have both and high-level CLI could be based on a robust set of
low-level CLI.
It is both too early and too late to change the CLI. Too early because
389-ds 1.4 is just out of the door and we have not yet feedback from
users to know what should be imporve. It is too late because users will
adopt this new CLI/UI, create their own scripts and we will need to be
backward compatible. So IMHO there is only one way to go, fix the CLI
bugs and extend the CLI set following your approach.
Simon proposed an action plan (update design, review/agreement of the
team, coding/deprecation) that looks quite good to me.
best regards
thierry
On 5/27/19 2:12 AM, William Brown wrote:
> Of course, I am opened for the discussion on the plan and the
vision.
> As Mark has pointed out, we should really gather here and decide as a team. :)
>
Yeah, I think this is the important point. In the past I did not do well with this, so I
think it's important we do it as a team. We really also should engage with people (but
some mailing list feedback has already been positive though). Something to keep in mind,
is that confusion about how a tool is used, is possibly a point of usability issue we
could resolve.
With a weekend of reflection, I think that Mark's suggestion of leaving what we have,
and maybe adding a dstask or something in parallel may be the easiest way to achieve this
with the least disruption. There is plenty on my plate for now, so I think there is no
rush to make changes here ...
Thank you all
> Regards,
> Simon
—
Sincerely,
William Brown
Senior Software Engineer, 389 Directory Server
SUSE Labs
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