[Be-devel] BE reorganization

[Gordon Tyler]

On 05/01/2010 11:49 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jan 05, 2010, at 03:53 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 
>> There was talk earlier about possibly splitting the Command API in
>> Bazaar off as a generic Python module. 
> 
> How does this compare with argparse and PEP 389?
> 
> I completely understand that it's probably easier to split bzr's code off into
> a separate package that it would be to rewrite bzr to use argparse.  Still,
> I'm not sure the Python world needs another argument parsing and command
> processing library.
> 
> What are the strengths of bzr's code over argparse?
> 
> -Barry
> 
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0389/

As far as I understand, it's not just an args parser, it's a whole
framework for the implementation of commands (e.g. bzr *commit*), and
the execution of those commands.

Ciao,
Gordon