Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla update-config

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > Somehow the idea of duplicating every command with a `foo-config'
    > version seems wrong to me.

    > All the mentioned commands take a --dir option and a version argument,
    > so it probably _ought_ to work to just use:

    >   tla catcfg CONFIG | xargs -n2 tla CMD --dir

    > If that's too annoying maybe some more convenient-to-type interface
    > could be added to tla, but I don't like just doubling the number of
    > commands.

    > One possible interface would be to add a `--config' option to the
    > primitive command, e.g.,

    >   tla update --config CONFIG

    > Presumably the way to implement this would be to add a helper-function
    > in libarch that arch_cmd_update et al. could call.

    > [say, didn't this same conversation occur on the mailing like two weeks
    > ago???]

[probably] and, I agree.

But, perhaps what this points towards is the desirable of various
scripting language interfaces to tla?   Perhaps the underlying issue
that the kids these days have no appreciation for shell programming :-)

-t