Dominique Dumont: What name for Config::Model s new command line ? cfg or something else ?
Hello
As Damyan mentioned last summer in Debconf, the current command interface to Config::Model Perl module is rather cumbersome as it involves quite a lot of typing. First, config-edit command name is too long. Even with the help bash completion, this does not compare well with git or hg command. Then all operation require options. For instance, the -application option is required to specify what you will be working on. A required option is a good example of an oxymoron. Which may be funny but which is not user friendly
So, here s the synopsis of the new command I m working on:
# edit dpkg config with GUI (Tk or curses, or readline) cfg edit dpkg # just check the validity of the file, show warnings # and suggested fixes # does not modify the file cfg check dpkg # check the file, remove deprecated parameters, # migrate data to new parameters and save cfg migrate dpkg # like migrate, but also apply all suggested fixes cfg fix dpkg # like migrate and modify configuration # with command line argument cfg modify dpkg source format="quilt (3.0)" # access dpkg parameters through a fuse file # system. data are saved when fs is unmounted cfg fusefs dpkg fuse-dir # dump configuration data in config-model format cfg dump dpkg # list all available applications cfg list # more general synopsis cfg [ global_options ] command application [ options ] argumentsThis synopsis use dpkg as an example, but it could be used for any of the available models (e.g. ssh, lcdproc, multistrap ). The main question I have for you is: Is cfg name good ? I mean it s short, descriptive enough. But it s also quite ugly. Does anyone have a better idea ? And what do you think of the synopsis shown above ? Are the sub-command name descriptive enough ? All the best
Thanks to the longstading work by Paul Wise in nearly 3 years...and
with some help from my side (and from other members of the font
packaging team), we're getting closer of a longstanding goal : 
... since we got married -- a great month 
a quiet RCBW week, here's the usual status report:
Late last month our six year anniversary of moving to the US quietly came
and went. This also makes it six years with Google.
I think if you had have told me at the start of 2005, that I'd be ending the
year off by starting a six year (and counting) stint in Silicon Valley, I
wouldn't have believed you.
Six years is comfortably the longest I've spent in any one place since I
moved out of home (the four years living at the Central Park Apartments was
the longest I've spent in any one home, also).
Six years is also far and away the longest time I've stayed with one
employer.
I wonder what life will be like in another six years' time?
I got this error when starting xend after a filesystem crash:
[2011-12-09 11:05:04 5590] ERROR (SrvDaemon:349) Exception starting xend (not well-formed (invalid token): line 3, column 0)
It sounded like an XML parsing error, but the stack trace in the log didn t say which file it had loaded. It turns out that it was trying to load something from /var/lib/xend/state/. Purging the /var/lib/xend/state directory fixed the problem, and hopefully had no side-effects.
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