[Pulp-list] --help standards for client tools

[Pradeep Kilambi]

When Todd asked me about this on Friday, the first thing i compared our CLI to was yum's and if you see yum's CLI it basically hold all the points that todd mentioned. I personally like help starting with capital letters, but without period at the end. But I said I can lean either way. I would suggest we pick the standard common tools in RHEL are using.

~ Prad

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason L Connor" <jconnor at redhat.com>
To: "pulp-list" <pulp-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 12:01:13 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] --help standards for client tools

On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 20:20 -0400, Todd B. Sanders wrote:
> I'd like to establish some standards for the way we document --help 
> for our client tools.  I am proposing the following simple rules:
> 
> 1. all lower case, always.
> 2. semi-colons to separate multiple thoughts.
> 3. no periods.
> 4. no abbreviations.
> 
> For example, this will change our current --help from:
> 
>   --relativepath=RELATIVEPATH	Relative path where the repo is stored and exposed to
> 
>                                  clients.  This defaults to feed path if not specified.
> 
> 
> To:
> 
> --relativepath=RELATIVEPATH	relative path where the repository is stored and exposed to
> 
>                                  clients; this defaults to feed path if not specified
> 
> 
> Please yell if you object to any of this.  I'll be modifying the current 
> implementation to conform to these new rules.
> 
> -Todd
> 
> 
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Yuck!

I'm personally a fan of sentences in the help, and would like to see us
standardize in the other direction. I think the all lower case and
semi-colons looks too much like code instead of documentation.

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Jason L Connor
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