[Users] ANNOUNCE: ovirt-engine-cli 2.0

[Michael Pasternak]

On 02/16/2012 01:27 PM, Michael Pasternak wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm happy to announce the general oVirt CLI 2.0 availability,
> 
> New features:
> ============
> 
> - New application core.
> - Added support for commands history stack.
> - Added support for context aware auto-competition.

auto-completion of course :)

> - Dynamic ovirt-engine-sdk metadata discovering.
> - Dynamic help for each command and resource.
> - Removed restriction for specific version of ovirt-engine-sdk
>   from 1.5 and further ovirt-engine-cli can work with any
>   version of sdk (unless sdk introduced cli incompatible change).
> - same naming convention in ovirt-engine-cli and ovirt-engine-sdk.
> - reformatted output to support reduced and expended modes in
>   'list' in 'show' commands by --show-all argument.
> - new object fields formatting.
> - added support for linux bash commands from the cli.
> - shell redirection support.
> - added SSL connection capabilities to 'connect' command.
> - added API version discovering mechanism.
> 
> RPMs
> ====
> 
> http://www.ovirt.org/releases/nightly/fedora/16/ovirt-engine-sdk-1.5-1.fc16.noarch.rpm
> http://www.ovirt.org/releases/nightly/fedora/16/ovirt-engine-cli-2.0-1.fc16.noarch.rpm
> 
> 
> Misc
> ====
> 
> - use 'help' for syntax/arguments questions.
> - use <TAB> completion for option variables as they get converted to
>   command line options with different syntax.
> - cli still requires super-user, this restriction will be drooped at
>   next version.
> 


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Michael Pasternak
RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D