Re: [MirageOS-devel] build workflow

[Richard Mortier <richard.mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 December 2016 at 18:10, Drup <drupyog+caml@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I'm now wondering: what was the rationale for having `mirage describe`
>> vs `mirage help` at all?
>> Maybe it would be better to incorporate the tty-output options of
>> `describe` into the `help` output, and have `mirage describe` only
>> produce the `--dot` output using the cached result of `mirage
>> configure` if available, or not if not?
>
>
> "mirage help" describes the tool. In particular, it works without a config
> file.
>
> "mirage describe" describes the unikernel. It only works with a config file.
>
> We must be careful about error modes without/without a config file: they are
> already quite a nightmare currently, and I'm a bit wary of merging these two
> commands, as it'll only make things worse.

Ok that makes sense, agree.

> Making --eval when the unikernel has already been configured sounds fine to
> me, as long as we get the opposite option. :)

+1 :)

-- 
Richard Mortier
richard.mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxx

_______________________________________________
MirageOS-devel mailing list
MirageOS-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel