[icedtea-web] RFC: add a command line tool to manipulate configuration

[Omair Majid]

On 12/16/2010 09:39 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 12:52 Wed 15 Dec     , Omair Majid wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The attached patch adds a tool named itweb-settings-cli (suggestions on
>> a better name are welcome!) to read/modify/check the deployment
>> configuration being used by IcedTea-Web.
>>
>
> Is it necessary to have a separate tool?  Can we not just have itweb-settings
> work as a command line tool if options are specified?
>

Of course we can. Please see the attached patch.

I just havent seen many tools that behave this way. I thought the 
convention with open source projects in general was to have separate gui 
and cli tools.

Cheers,
Omair


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