On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:00, Adam Nielsen wrote: >>>> What would be a better name for "--test"? >>> >>> Using Gentoo's emerge as an example, how about --oneshot? >> >> It's more than that though. >> >> --onetime >> --no-daemonize >> --ignorecache >> --verbose >> --no-usecacheonfailure >> >> and I think I'm missing some newer additions too. > > Hmm that's true, and it is similar to --onetime. How about --explain? The > end result is that you get a detailed explanation of what is happening. > > --test could be deprecated and --dry-run (like the 'make' parameter) added to > do the same with no-op as well.
+1 Letting --test run out slowly (over maybe 2 releases) would be a good compromise between change and consistency, and --dry-run would more clearly convey the meaning of what is being done. Cheers, Thorsten -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
