[Kde-pim] Akonadi Commandline Interface Project

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday, 2014-03-01, 15:07:06, Bhaskar Kandiyal wrote:
> On Saturday 01 March 2014 12:33 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > I'll have a look at your repository over the weekend. But sounds very
> > promising :)
> 
> That would be great thanks :)
> 
> >> For the Clear command, just some things that I've noticed from
> >> a quick look though the code:
> >> 
> >> This is a dangerous command (extremely so!).  So as to avoid any user
> >> prompting for confirmation (which is not so useful for command line
> >> scripting), there is a check for such commands which needs a magic
> >> variable to be set in the environment in order to be able to execute
> >> such commands.
> > 
> > I think we would rather go with a special commandline switch, e.g. like
> > --force
> > 
> > Maybe even requiring either that or --dry-run (or similar), like git clean
> > does.
> > 
> > In kabcclieent I only had the dry-run/simulate option, i.e. in order to
> > safely test commands, but without it would always execute unhindered.
> > But since this can do a lot more explicit force might work better.
> 
> Adding --force and --dry-run option sounds neat! Also, maybe we can have
> --dry-run as a global option for all commands?

Yes, that would indeed be a good idea.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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