[Be-devel] BE reorganization

[John Szakmeister]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at canonical.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 05, 2010, at 03:53 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
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>>There was talk earlier about possibly splitting the Command API in
>>Bazaar off as a generic Python module.
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> How does this compare with argparse and PEP 389?
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> 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.
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> What are the strengths of bzr's code over argparse?

I'm coming late to this but two features I enjoy in bzr's command-line
parsing are aliases and hidden commands.  As John mentioned later in
the thread, the help facility is nice too.

-John