[Mailman-Developers] MM command prefix and-or single mm-admin CLI frontend

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Nov 8 09:58:55 CET 2008


Andy Buckley writes:

 > In MM, there is no common prefix

Since most commands work best from the Mailman home directory, "bin/"
works fine for me.<wink>

 > is to have a single admin command which can either behave like a
 > non-interactive process or a subcommand interpreter, depending on
 > how it is called.

I would say that the big advantage is not so much the "prefix" aspect,
but rather the ability to give helpful help, such as brief
descriptions or required arguments, and also to have a "mm help <cmd>"
version for details on each command.



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