[hipl-dev] Re: [Merge] lp:~martin-lp/hipl/hipfwconf into lp:hipl
- From: Diego Biurrun <diego@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hipl-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:43:16 +0200
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 01:31:29PM +0000, René Hummen wrote:
> On 24.10.2011, at 17:49, Miika Komu wrote:
> > Why separate binary just for configuring hipfw? Why this can't be embedded
> > into hipconf?
>
> There are three ways to implement this functionality:
> 1) add an extra keyword to the hipconf command line: hipconf (daemon |
> firewall) COMMAND
> 2) add firewall queries as command parameter: hipconf get firewall-ha
> 3) implement as separate binary using libcore.
>
> (1) would require some changes to hipconf command line parsing and
> would render the old user API broken. Furthermore, it would require an
> even longer parameter list for getting specific information. For these
> reasons, I would not want to implement this option.
alias hipdconf="hipconf daemon"
alias hipfwconf="hipconf firewall"
Diego
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