Snapcraft

Snapcraft should respond to "help", "version", "-v", "--version"

Bug #1501222 reported by Mark Shuttleworth
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Snapcraft
Fix Released
Medium
Sergio Schvezov
Snapcraft 0.4

Bug Description

Just playing with the snapcraft command, it would be good to handle:

  snapcraft help -> equivalent to snapcraft -h
  snapcraft version -> print a useful version number and prompt to "snapcraft help"
  snapcraft -v -> same as snapcraft version

Related branches

lp://staging/~sergiusens/snapcraft/1501222
John Lenton (community): Approve
Diff: 86 lines (+38/-17)
1 file modified
snapcraft/main.py (+38/-17)
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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote :

And --version is the same as -v and "version".

Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)
Changed in snapcraft:
milestone: none → 0.4
Snappy Tarmac (snappydevtarmac)
Changed in snapcraft:
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Leo Arias (elopio) wrote :

snapcraft help, snapcraft -h and snapcraft --help all work.

snapcraft version, snapcraft -v and snapcraft --version don't work:

elopio@tangamandapio76:~/workspace/canonical/snapcraft$ bzr branch lp:snapcraft trunk
Branched 258 revisions.
elopio@tangamandapio76:~/workspace/canonical/snapcraft$ cd trunk/
elopio@tangamandapio76:~/workspace/canonical/snapcraft/trunk$ ./bin/snapcraft -v
usage: snapcraft [-h] [--version]
                 {init,shell,run,list-plugins,clean,help,pull,build,stage,snap,assemble,all}
                 ...
snapcraft: error: unrecognized arguments: -v
elopio@tangamandapio76:~/workspace/canonical/snapcraft/trunk$ ./bin/snapcraft --version
snapcraft (devel). Run "snapcraft help" to get started.
elopio@tangamandapio76:~/workspace/canonical/snapcraft/trunk$ ./bin/snapcraft version
usage: snapcraft [-h] [--version]
                 {init,shell,run,list-plugins,clean,help,pull,build,stage,snap,assemble,all}
                 ...
snapcraft: error: argument cmd: invalid choice: 'version' (choose from 'init', 'shell', 'run', 'list-plugins', 'clean', 'help', 'pull', 'build', 'stage', 'snap', 'assemble', 'all')

Changed in snapcraft:
status: Fix Committed → Confirmed
Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)
Changed in snapcraft:
assignee: nobody → Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)
importance: Undecided → Medium
Snappy Tarmac (snappydevtarmac)
Changed in snapcraft:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens) wrote :

Released in snapcraft 0.4

Changed in snapcraft:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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