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

[Brian Stansberry]

Agreed. Changing the name of this script would require changes to docs, 
courseware, knowledge base articles, demos, etc.

Plus, the name change from jboss-admin.sh came out of a big usability 
workshop we had with people from all over Red Hat. So changing it again 
would IMO require a big discussion.

I launch the CLI via

./jb<tab><enter>

 From the root, this is fine too:

bin/jb<tab><enter>

On 9/3/12 5:14 PM, Stuart Douglas wrote:
> I don't think this is worth it. Any change like this at this point is
> going to break users existing scripts, for no real benefit.
>
> I also don't really think that two tab completions are to many, and if
> someone is using it enough that it is an annoyance they can just create
> an alias anyway.
>
> Stuart
>
>> Cheng Fang <mailto:cfang at redhat.com>
>> 1 September 2012 2:26 AM
>> 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.
>>
>> 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'?
>>
>> I personally like the old name jboss-admin.sh better, except that it's
>> too long.
>>
>> Cheng
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