[Opensim-dev] Organization and naming patterns of commands on the console

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Hello,

I want to add more commands to the archiving module but I want to do this within the module itself rather than adding 
any specific logic to core.

The terrain module already has a 'module commander' to help do this, but this prefixes all commands with the word 
terrain (e.g. terrain fill, terrain load, etc.)

For consistency purposes, eventually I think that all console commands should largely follow the same pattern.  If we 
the terrain module scheme, then we get the following kinds of changes (if we assume that commands from different modules 
can actually share the same initial 'keyword')

backup 		=> region backup
create user	=> user create
create-region 	=> region create
help users	=> user help (for user commands)
show assets	=> assets show
show users 	=> user show
load-xml	=> region xml load (?)
load-oar	=> region oar load (?)
kickuser	=> user kick

I think that the pros of this approach are that it makes it easy to avoid name collisions and easy to distribute 
commands to the right module.  The console seem to include the fact that it's not very intuitive (e.g. show users seems 
easier to remember than user show) and it involves more typing in some cases (e.g. region xml load rather than load-xml 
or load xml).

Any thoughts on this?  Just kind of thinking about it at this stage - part of me prefers typing things like "show users" 
or "help terrain" while another part of my mind likes the 'tidiness' of prefixing every module command with the same 
word (e.g. terrain fill or region oar load).

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