Re: [Duplicity-talk] bash completion for duplicity

[Aaron]

Hello Jose,

On 2018-06-25 10:28, edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> On 25.06.2018 09:26, Jozef Riha via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> > hello list,
> >
> > i found a bash completion config for duplicity at 
> > http://neuling.org/devel/junkcode/duplicity-completion so i wonder 
> > whether (if author agrees) this could be added to duplicity.
>
> hey Jose,
>
> nice catch. i'd agree to add it provided some enhancements are done.
[...]
> 3.
> main issue - maintaining the list of options is tiresome. there should
> be a way of either asking duplicity for it's options (eg. parsing
> help) or generating the list during distro build.
> if that does not happen the list will become outdated very fast as
> contributors regularly forget to document their changes. we have to
> point out update the man page in pretty much every merge request.
>
> if you'd be willing to tackle these points, i'd see no further 
> obstacles so far.

Without digging into the detail, this:
http://argcomplete.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
apparently automatically collects options for bash completion from 
argparse, which feels like a sensible approach.

Moving from Optparse to Argparse is on the roadmap already anyway:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1480565

Kind regards,

Aaron