Re: global option and action sub-option

[tbsky]

ewl+rdiffbackup@lavar.de
> Now you call 'rdiff-backup --help' and you know which global options
> there are, and which actions there are. You call 'rdiff-backup ACTION
> --help' and you know which options this action has. How can it be
> easier? Everything is also documented as clearly as that in the man
> page. And there is a migration guide. The command line completion
> could be more helpful but it currently needs to support old and new
> CLI and that makes it messy.
>
> But, it is open source, you can document it better and provide
> examples (did you know that we have an examples document?).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Eric
>
> PS: and there will be no relaxing of the rules, Python argparse 
> limitation.

  Yes I think the new syntax is quite clear and structured. it is user 
friendly but sometimes it's not easy to use in script.
for example when I backup a server I need to collect parameters about 
ssh-ip,ssh-port,ssh-compression,directory-exclusion from config files.
now I need to arrange the location of the parameters, seperate them for 
generic option and action sub-option. but as you said, we should live 
with it since it is Python argparse limitation.

Regards,
tbsky