[bind10-dev] bigtool mock-up committed

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:37:53 +0800,
"ZhangLikun" <zhanglikun at cnnic.cn> wrote:

> The code is under experiments\likun-bigtool
> 
> The first version, support the following features:

Some quick feedback:

- test_bigtool.py somehow worked with python 2.6 but only partially
  (e.g. command completion didn't work), which is confusing.  If this
  requires 3.0, I would like the script to fail immediately if it's
  run by an older version of python.
- when I saw the prompt, I was tempted to type "help" or "?" and was
  then disappointed:-)  It would be literally helpful if this could
  show even some information such as a list of supported commands.
- I'm not sure if I understand this syntax:
>    zone  set,   zone_name = "example.com",  attr_name = "master",
> attr_value = "218.127.0.1"
  but it doesn't seem to be very intuitive in that it's not clear from
  this syntax that "attr_name" and "attr_value" consist a pair of
  information.  That is, all of "zone_name", "attr_name", "attr_value"
  seem to be listed at the same level, but this is actually
  interpreted as:
  zone_name
  attr_name + attr_value

  I'm afraid it will also be confusing with this syntax style if we
  have multiple attributes to be specified.

---
JINMEI, Tatuya

p.s. I have one stupid question: I've been wondering what's
"bigtool".  To me, it seems everyone suddenly started referring to it
but I'm afraid I don't remember when this term was introduced (maybe
at the weekly call I missed in early September?).  Does "bigtool"
refer to a python based command line configuration tool?