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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9 August 2011 01:27, Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 11-08-08 10:38 AM, Jamu Kakar wrote:
>> This sounds a lot like a library I wrote some time ago called
>> Commandant.  It's a wrapper around bzrlib that let's you easily write
>> applications with a Bazaar-like user experience.
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> It's not surprising, since I've done so much hacking on bzr.  But I've
> long thought that the command classes of bzrlib were somewhat redundant,
> since they only exist to house the "run" method.  I think that functions
> are a better match for subcommands.  Unlike bzrlib, script_commands
> doesn't require declaring options or their types.  It's just less friction.

fwiw I agree that them being objects is a bit unnecessary, and if I
was adding them now I would probably make them just functions.  In
other languages wrapping function-like things in objects makes sense,
but I think not in Python.

Martin