Re: -simulate

I prefer no to rise exceptions as long as the code CAN continue to
run... ;) But good idea to print a deprecated hint if -dry was used;
I forgot this one!

Greetings!

On 13.06.2012 13:04, info <at> gno.de wrote:
> I just made a comment at CR. Removing these options could confuse
> bot owners or break bot maintenance. You should either implement an
> option alias or raise a nonimplemented error to prevent it's use
> without -simulate but with the old one. And print a hint that the
> old option is deprecated (if you prefer the alias) or removed (if
> you raise the exception)
> 
> Greetings xqt
> 
> 
> ----- Original Nachricht ---- Von:     "Dr. Trigon"
> <dr.trigon <at> surfeu.ch> An:      pywikipedia-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org 
> Datum:   13.06.2012 12:33 Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] -simulate
> 
> On 03.04.2012 15:15, Bináris wrote:
>>>> 2012/2/18 <drtrigon <at> svn.wikimedia.org 
>>>> <mailto:drtrigon <at> svn.wikimedia.org>>
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/9909
>>>> 
>>>> Revision: 9909 Author:   drtrigon Date:     2012-02-17
>>>> 23:09:15 +0000 (Fri, 17 Feb 2012) Log Message: -----------
>>>> follow-up to r9905 '-debug' replaced with new '-simulate'
>>>> that allows switching off write access
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Trigon, this is great, thank you! I have just tried it and
>>>> works fine and helps in testing a lot.
> 
> Your wellcome!!
> 
>>>> Several scripts use their own mechanism for that with "-dry"
>>>> or "-test" or something; we should revise these if they are
>>>> still neccessary or may be removed. (As far as I understand
>>>> -simulate works with API query. What happens if somebody uses
>>>> the bot without API?)
> 
> Please consider r10354 and r10353. Hope this is what you had in
> mind (back those days... ;)
> 
> Greetings DrTrigon
> 
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