Sorry Adam for hijacking, I'm not subscribed to mm-users.
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 15:46 +0100, Adam McGreggor wrote:
*shimmied over to mailman-devs* (from -users)
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:33:06AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
It kind of sucks that there are so many other Mailman command line
scripts, which is one reason why I've always put them in a separate
Mailman specific bin directory. With MM3 though I intend to use a
'subcommand' approach so that there's only one 'mailman' command.
Think things like 'mailman listmembers foo'. I'll probably keep
mailmanctl separate though I haven't decided about that yet.
I applaud you on this, Barry. I seem to remember discussions where to place these commands for Debian, ATM they pollute the /usr/sbin namespace. May I suggest to put mailman in /usr/bin while mailmanctl stays in /usr/sbin.
Would it too much to ask for the 'old' (read 'current') scripts/commands to be aliased: at least in the first few releases?
e.g., for 'list_members' to link to 'mailman listmembers'Perhaps as an install/configure/compilation option? "Create old-style links?" --old-style-links
You might contribute some shell scripts simulating old behavior, a Debian package would then ask an additional debconf question whether to install these compatibility scripts or not.
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