Re: [jboss-as7-dev] rename jboss-cli.sh?

On 08/31/2012 06:26 PM, Cheng Fang wrote: > I've been playing with jboss as7 cli and like to share my experience. I > understand that in AS7-2310, it was renamed from jboss-admin.sh to > jboss-cli.sh, so a second renaming seems disruptive, but anyway here it > goes... > > First, can we remove the .sh file extension? Tools like ant, mvn and > groovy are all shell scripts but do not have the .sh extension. Users > just need to execute it, without concerning if it is written as a shell > script to binary. Having the .sh extension limits ourselves in impl > options. On Windows we continue to have .bat, which is unavoidable, but > users just need to run "jboss-cli" with .bat extension. No objections from me. > jboss-cli.sh is quite some typing for users, and the first TAB > completion will not enough. It takes 2 tabs to complete jboss-cli.sh > > Secondly, can we remove the -cli part to further simplify the name? It > seems to be superfluous as many terminal commands are cli. IMO, a name > needs to reflect the purpose of the tool, rather than its form. By > having -cli in the name, we are again restricting it to be a cli tool. > But didn't we have a GUI form that can be launched by 'jboss-cli.sh --gui'? Removing -cli part would create more confusion, imo. The meaning behind jboss-cli is "command-line interface [management tool] for jboss [server or domain]". If it's just 'jboss' then I can imagine doubts "does it start jboss, i.e. the server?" or something like that. We could call it as-cli. Or if somebody has a better idea... > I personally like the old name jboss-admin.sh better, except that it's > too long. Thanks, Alexey > Cheng > _______________________________________________ > jboss-as7-dev mailing list > jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev > _______________________________________________ jboss-as7-dev mailing list jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev