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Re: ANN ubuntu-device-flash changes

 

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thanks for cleaning and grouping the udf commands up. Will you keep
> the current cli API available (supported as deprecated) for a while or
> is that not possible?
>

The ones used for automation are, yes; I could do it for all switches but
it doesn't seem as necessary and most use the ones used by the sdk and ci
anyways.



>
> Thanks!
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Sergio Schvezov
> <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'll soon be landing a change to ubuntu-device-flash that will change the
> > syntax a bit.
> >
> > Mind you before any hair is lost by the sdk or ci folk that I've already
> > been in talks with zbenjamin and plars and the cases they have are
> backwards
> > compatible.
> >
> > The change is basically positional commands, now needing a 'touch' added
> to
> > the command (implicitly selected for now for the common use cases)
> >
> >     ubuntu-device-flash touch ...
> >
> > I've also moved the querying options that were all crammed together to
> >
> >     ubuntu-device-flash query
> >
> >
> > No command assumes 'touch' and passes all the args to that command and
> > prints out a deprecated message.
> >
> > Additionally, since I never wanted people using --developer-mode except
> for
> > ci related tasks, a message has been added that says that all security
> > features may be lost if used on your device. This will be more of a true
> > case when the final security features for adb land into the image. New
> > emulator instances are also covered by this.
> >
> > I'm leaving this in vivid to settle for a bit before migrating it to
> > ppa:phablet-team/tools so for most people, it's just an fyi.
> >
> >
> >
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