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

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On 9/3/2012 7:46 AM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
> 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.
One thing you need to think about is the fact that this triggers lots of
documentation changes for what I see as little or no benefit.  As a
Windows user, I rather like it when I see .sh.  It lets me know that
file is not for me.

As for impl options, I would think that the time for a rename would be
such time as we decided to change the impl.  What is to be gained by
doing it now?

>
>> 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...
Again, I'm for leaving it alone.
>
>> I personally like the old name jboss-admin.sh better, except that it's
>> too long.
> Thanks,
> Alexey
>
>> Cheng
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