DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.0

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Sun Jan 8 12:36:58 PST 2012


"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
news:jecuno$18e6$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> Something possibly releated I've been meaning to bring up: I've been 
> thinking that DVM's commands and options should work more like, say, git 
> or svn. By that I mean: Right now DVM has a set of commands, and a set of 
> "global" DVM options. Problem is, some of the options only apply to some 
> of the commands. This sugegsts a few changes:
>
> 1. "dvm --help" should only show globally-applicable options. (--verbose 
> and --help are probably only ones right now.)
>
> 2. "dvm [command] --help" (and maybe "dvm --help [command]", too) should 
> show a command-specific help screen.
>

3. Use of inapplicable options, like "dvm --default fetch 2.057", should be 
an error.

> This isn't a *huge* need right now, but I think it'll only become more and 
> more important as DVM progresses. I don't know if this is something that 
> should be taken into account in the refactoring, or just left until after.
>




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