Comment 5 for bug 1094713

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dan wendlandt (danwent) wrote :

A couple concerns:

Associating a command with an extension name does not tell the user a very important fact: whether they can use the command against the server that they are currently hitting.

A second point is that it seems like people are assuming that each command maps to an extension. The reality is that is may be a particular option of a command (e.g., an additional value you can pass when creating a port) that is the extension. How would we represent that?

Showing help that is specific to the extensions currently running on the server is the only way I can think of that achieves both of the above (though there may be others as well).

I agree that it is a bit strange to have "help" for the quantum utility potentially be different against different services, but its somewhat similar to using different versions of the utility (which makes SOME sense, given that you are effectively using different versions of the server).

Definitely open to other ideas though.