[Caml-list] Re: [RFC] new OPAM command-line interface

[Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@ocamlpro.com>]

Hi,

Just to let people know that I've taken into account most of the remarks (even if I still have few changes to do) so I've merged the cmdliner branch into the main tree. Please use the master branch now for testing.
Also, due to an unfortunate sequence of actions (see [1]) all previous release of OPAM will likely not compile from source anymore because an url change. To fix this, I've release 0.8.3, so packager should upgrade ASAP (this is already available in homebrew for OSX users). 0.9.0 should also be released quite soon, I'm fixing the few remaining blocker bugs that showed off before christmas.

Regards,
Thomas

[1] https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues/347

On Dec 14, 2012, at 7:09 PM, Thomas Gazagnaire wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In order to prepare the beta release of OPAM (which should hopefully be announced at the end of next week if everything goes well), I've been working on improving its command-line interface (which is currently a bit had-hoc). Thanks to the great Daniel Bunzli's cmdliner[1] library, I now have a nice -- but incompatible -- command-line interface in the 'cmdliner' branch[2].
> 
> The main changes are:
> * an uniform help interface, where all flags and parameters are correctly documents
> * no more -long-option, only -s or --long
> * 'opam remote' is still there for convenience but will be deprecated; use 'opam repository' instead
> * use of sub-sub-commands when necessary (ie. 'opam repository add')
> * use non-ambiguous prefix of sub-command instead of the subcommand (ie. 'opam repo' or 'opam rem')
> * AND: a nice 'opam --help' and 'opam <subcommand> --help' output
> 
> I'm quite keen to get community feedback on this new command-line. Feel free to comment here, or to to use the issue tracker[3].
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 
> [1] http://erratique.ch/software/cmdliner
> [2] git clone -b cmdliner git://github.com/OCamlPro/opam.git
> [3] https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues/157
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