Re: [libvirt] [RFC 0/7] Warn at runtime when deprecated features are used

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 01:09:50PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > So once we have these changes in place, command line users can be > pretty much completely isolated from libvirt defaults, just like > virt-manager and oVirt and Nova users. Then it will be up to us > to actually advertise these alternatives and push users away from > virsh[1] and towards them. > > I wonder if showing a message suggesting to use virt-xml instead > when 'virsh edit' or 'virsh attach-device' are called would be > considered acceptable at that point? Depends what you mean by showing a message ? I'd be fine with the virsh man page referring people to virt-xml as a companion tool. I would certainly not expect invokation of 'virsh edit' to print any text on the console, as it will always be valid to want to use "virsh edit", "virsh atach-device" or any other command precisely because they are an almost direct passthrough to the libvirt API without trying to inject clever logic of their own.