[libvirt] [PATCH] virsh: add aliases 'boot', 'stop', and 'restart'

[Eric Blake]

On 11/16/2012 03:51 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:39:45 -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:24:07PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> NACK to this patch. I think the current command names are good.
>>>>> Creating duplicates will make life worse. First, it creates
>>>>> divergance from the similarly named commands for networks,
>>>>> storage and other objects. It also means scripts written again
>>>>> the new commands will not work with existing libvirt.
>>
>> I'm putting my vote with Dan on this (Just to be clear, my original
>> message in this thread was written in the spirit of "well, if you're
>> going to do this, then at least make sure what you're doing is
>> explicitly documented").
> 
> Well, I'm with Dan and Laine on this. I think adding the alias for mistyped
> commands was good since it made life easier for those who know what command
> they want to use keep forgetting to mistype it in the same way. However, I
> don't like the idea of adding synonyms for commands just because it seems
> easier for someone to remember the synonyms. It may lead to confusion when
> people are talking about the same thing but are used to different synonyms.
> It also destroys consistency which we have now. And we are not going to
> translate various commands into different languages either, are we?
> 
> However, if we wanted to still be nice to end users, we could implement
> user-defined aliases for virsh. It would give users more power since commonly
> used options could be aliased as well, e.g., someone always doing p2p live
> migrations could setup an alias "lm" to be "migrate --p2p --live". And anyone
> could make aliases to fit their needs. And I'm suggesting just a simple text
> substitution that would just replace a recognized aliase at the beginning of a
> command with the definition of the alias and just parse the result as if that
> was what the user typed.

Indeed, allowing user-defined aliases would be nicer.  I'll go ahead and
revert my patch, and think about what it would take to let the user
customize things instead.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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