On 11/16/2017 1:23 AM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote: <...> >> I do not agree it has severed DPDK well, just look at test-pmd and the hoops >> people have to jump thru to get a new command or variation of an existing >> command integrated into test-pmd it is very difficult. Also if you look at >> the command sets in test-pmd they are very odd in that similar commands can >> some times be set up completely different as cmdline is too rigid and >> difficult to use. > > Testpmd is indeed messy, but this is not librte_cmdline's fundamental fault > in my opinion, more likely the result of using a copy/paste approach to new > commands due to lack of time or interest in making things nicer than the > bare minimum to validate features. There's no design direction for it hence > the lack of uniformity in the command hierarchy.
Unrelated to cmdline discussion +1 for this paragraph.
