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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 March 2011 22:53, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Robert Collins
> <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> [1] Such a pity that my favourite command-line program doesn't make
>>> its CLI stuff easily re-usable :P
>>
>> Its easily reusable, and used by lptools commands already.
>>
>
> All of that boilerplate (list_commands, do_run_bzr, etc. or the
> equivalents in devscripts/ec2test) is exactly what I meant by not
> easily re-usable. Not only is it boilerplate, but it's hard to figure
> out unless you know where to look. bin/lp-milestones is *not* where I
> would have looked.

Well, it's not ideal, but we can try to simplify it, both within
lptools and by making the exported bzr api more congenial.

Martin