On Mon, 19 May 2014 17:09:02 +0200 Stéphane Graber <stgra...@ubuntu.com> 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 <stgra...@ubuntu.com> 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 Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen <dwight.en...@oracle.com> --- 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 lxc-devel@lists.linuxcontainers.org http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-devel