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Re: Action items for Kedar from today's

From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_sun.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:04:10 -0700

Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
>
>
> Bill Shannon wrote:
>> Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> *For Prelude*, I feel that all the man-pages should do a better job of
>>> "hiding" the --target from readers mainly because we are not utilizing
>>> the targets for Prelude. Providing information regarding targets
>>> generally confuses the intended users of Prelude, IMO.
>>>
>>> Can all the commands just not mention any information for target for
>>> Prelude? We will reinstate --target for v3 final.
>>
>> In v3, can I say "asadmin --target foo list"? That is, can all the
>> common arguments that really apply to asadmin itself rather than the
>> subcommands be specified *before* the subcommand? If so, why don't
>> we document it that way, even though the options can also be specified
>> after the subcommand?
>
> Yes, for v3 final.
> No, for Prelude.

Does that mean for Prelude I would have to say "asadmin list --target server"?
Or does that mean for Prelude "--target" isn't even allowed?

> Yes, it will be handled in a backward incompatible manner.

Um, that doesn't sound good.