[lxc-devel] [PATCH] remove TODO file with old item in it

[Dwight Engen]

On Mon, 19 May 2014 17:09:02 +0200
Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:30:15PM +0800, Sheng Yong wrote:
> > Hi, all
> > 
> > These 4 patches create interactive interface for lxc-create.
> > lxdialog and mconf are used directly from linux kernel. mconf and
> > corresponding config file are installed at $datadir/lxc/scripts/.
> > 
> > '-m | --menuconfig' option forks a new task and executes mconf.
> > After menuconfig, a default .config file is saved at the current
> > directory. lxc-create reads and parses .config, then fills the
> > lxc_arguments.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > shyodx 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the long delay, it took me a while to make up my mind about
> this.
> 
> So long story short, we won't be including this work in LXC at this
> point. The main reason for this is that this is a rather big change,
> which will require ongoing maintenance (whenever a template is added
> or changes) for what feels like pretty low gain, our users typically
> are either happy to call lxc-create again with the needed arguments
> or will create a base container and then just lxc-clone it.
> 
> It's always hard to reject a new feature especially when it's clear
> that you've spent quite a bit of time working on this but I think
> keeping LXC simple in that regard is the right move for now.
> 
> Nacked-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>

Stéphane, I agree with your reasoning. Just thought I'd point out that
Sheng may have done this because it was in the TODO file, which makes
it a bit more unfortunate :( I had no idea this was in there, but I guess
its been there since 2009, so maybe we should take it out of there :)

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Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen at oracle.com>
---
 TODO | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
deleted file mode 100644
index 56d5056..0000000
--- a/TODO
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-
-
-* create an interactive configuration with the lxc-create command
-  line, like the 'make menuconfig' of the kernel.
-
-  = lxc-create [-n foo] -m|--menuconfig
-- 
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