BREAKING: toot 0.40.0 `post` command no longer accepts `-u`/`--using`
kseistrup opened this issue · comments
Now that toot post -u|--using no longer works (which is an unlisted breaking change), how are we supposed to specify which account to post as?
This is a bug, I'll fix it but not today. Please downgrade to 0.39.0 until I can produce a patch.
I decided to make this another breaking change, since I'm already breaking things. Added to changelog for 0.40.0.
Please upgrade to 0.40.1 and use toot --as <account> post. This option works for all commands, not just post.
Please upgrade to 0.40.1 and use
toot --as <account> post.
That's a lot of scripts to have to rewrite. Was it really impossible to keep the old -u/--using option so as to not make it a breaking change?
While I respect your right to make as many breaking changes as you like, whenever you like, I would like to present how the situation looks from here:
Had -us/--using not been changed to --as in this commit, the breaking changes in v0.40.0 would not have affected me at all. Now I have in the ballpark of 75 shell scripts that are using toot to automate posting to the fediverse, and because other commands in these shell scripts may be using -u or --using, and because around a third of the scripts have the option on a line or two below the toot post (in order to avoid excessively long lines), it is unfortunately not as simple as running sed -i s/--using/--as/g on all the scripts. Instead I now have to go through each script manually to make it conform to the new syntax with --as, and while I do this I have to stop auto-posting.
Indeed a breaking change.
It would be interesting to hear why you felt it was so important to change a word from --using to --as and thus with certainty break everything for people who are posting from more than one account, rather than just using the same option as before and only break something for a fraction of said users.
Please check out 0.40.2, the option has been restored.
That's really, really nice. Thanks a lot! 🙏