[Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Mailman CLI Project

[Rajeev S]

On Monday 12 May 2014 09:12 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> A better name might be `show` since the term "list" is so overloaded in this
> context.  Here's it's being used as a verb and a noun to refer to different
> concepts, and I think that's confusing.

Yes, its confusing. In fact, I was looking for a replacement for that. 
Thanks.

> Also as a general rule, I think we want just one level of subcommand, so that
> `mmclient show --list` would be the template.  (That's open to discussion.)
>
> ...
>
> Yuck.  Sorry but I'd like to discourage the use of made up or concatenated
> words.  It's okay for some options to be multi-word separated by dashes,
> e.g. --affect-bar or --change-foo.
>
> I don't have a good alternative atm.

Will do.

> E.g.
>
> mmclient set --key <name> --value <value>
>
>
I have answered this part and the `one level subcommand` part in the 
reply to Steve's mail.