<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>The use cases we outlined earlier provide very little value over using httpie to interact with the REST API directly. I'd like to propose 5 new use cases:<br><ul><li>As a CLI user, I can create a repository, a remote, a publisher, and a distribution with a single command.</li><li>As a CLI user, I can create a repository version, a publication, and update the distribution with a single command.</li><li>As a CLI user, I can list remote types available on the Pulp server.</li><li>As a CLI user, I can list publisher types available on the Pulp server.</li><li>As a CLI user, I can list all repositories available on the Pulp server. <br></li></ul><br>The use cases proposed at the beginning on this thread require the user to perform 4 steps before any content can be synced:<br><br></div>1) Create repository<br></div>2) Create remote<br></div>3) Create publisher<br></div>4) Create distribution <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The goal for the CLI should be to reduce this to a single step. The CLI will need to make some assumptions for the user: publisher name, distribution name, auto publish, auto distribute, and maybe others. However, this will allow the user to use a single command to create a repository that's ready for sync/publish.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sync/Publish/Distribute workflow can also be 3 steps:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">1) Create a new repository version<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">2) Create a new publication<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">3) Update distribution<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The goal here is to also reduce this to a single step. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The other use cases are auxiliary.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Questions? Thoughts? Ideas? <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Dennis<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Dana Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dawalker@redhat.com" target="_blank">dawalker@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">+1<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_52532154587299881gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Jeremy Audet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaudet@redhat.com" target="_blank">jaudet@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span><span style="font-size:12.8px">A configuration file in the user's home dir, right?</span></span><br><span></span></blockquote><span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Yes, exactly.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Can we make sure to avoid placing configuration files directly in users home directories, and instead place them into directories like ~/.config? This is in line with the <a href="https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html" target="_blank">XDG Base Directory Specification</a>. The spec is pretty straightforward, but Pulp Smash uses <a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg/" target="_blank">pyxdg</a> to avoid mistakes. There's two big benefits to doing this:<br></div><div><ul><li>Less clutter in home directories.</li><li>Guidance on what to do with other types of files, such as cached files and runtime files.</li></ul><p>Projects such as git, htop, lftp, mpd, neovim, tmuxinator, boybo, and more do this.<br></p></div></div></div></div>
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