[Yum-devel] YumBaseCli and yum-utils

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 11:42 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 09:01 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> > I made a simple prototype to show the concept.
> > 
> > climod.py is a modified version of cli.py (se patch)
> > dupes-cli.py is a modified version of dupes-cli there inherit  yum
> > commandline options.
> > 
> > just save the files in a directory and run 'sudo python dupes-cli.py
> > --help'
> 
> So I took a look at this. Two thoughts:
> 
> 1. do we consider the cli api something we can change during 3.0.X or
> not?

Given that it's squirrelled away under /usr/share/yum-cli, I somewhat
think that anyone using it gets what they're asking for...  that said,
the argument could also be made that this could be a convincing reason
for someone to require yum 3.2[1].  

Jeremy

[1] Which like I've previously said, I hope to be painless for users of
existing API unless they want to take advantage of a newer mo' bettah
API