From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 10:59:03 +0200
> Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 01:01:38AM CEST, step...@networkplumber.org wrote: >>On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:30:27 +0200 >>Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: >> >>> We actually took this code from teamdctl (at least it was an influence). >>> Devlink style is so much different in every aspect from the rest of the >>> iproute2 suite. And I did it on purpose, because it is much nicer and >>> easier to read. I would like to continue on this and don't do things in >>> the was the existing tools do. I don't see any problem with that. >> >>No. That is road to ruin. Every package is free to use what ever style >>it wants. But don't crossover please. > > So we are stuck with some ugly way just because some other util does it? > Well, in devlink I wrote lot of things differently, nicer. For example > cmdline parsing. Why is it a "road to ruin"? I agree with Jiri, if he wants to stylize devlink a certain way that makes sense for devlink information, that is perfectly fine and does not impact the way the rest of iproute2's output appears to the user at all.
