On Jan 24, 2011, at 3:22 AM, Thorsten Biel wrote: > > 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.
I guess I'm good with this as long as the meaning never changes and the option just stops working. -- 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.
