bts tags 635892 + confirmed
thanks

Hi!

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 06:06:02AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> Here are what problems I have found so far.
> 
> On the flickcurl man page:
> 
> Mention that all output goes to STDERR for some strange reason.
> So then it will get mingled with error messages. Odd scheme of things.
> Or mention just why that choice was made.
> Or fix it.

I'll see what upstream thinks about this; while this should be easy to
fix, he might have an opinion on this which I don't wish to overrule.

> Also, we read
> 
>        flickcurl  is  a utility program to call the Flickr APIs via the flick-
>        curl library.  Run flickcurl -h to get a list of the supported commands
>        and their arguments.
> 
> No, that will just tell us to register.
> 
> But before we register, we would like to see if it is worth registering
> or not. So do also show the list of supported commands.

Well, this might be a limitation, but the man page makes it
clear. Perhaps a blurb can be added to refer to the man page for
complete options?

>        The  program  requires  configuring  before use to work with the Flickr
>        APIs.  Run flickcurl without any options to get  the  instructions  for
>        registering the application and creating the initial configuration file
>        ~/.flickcurl.conf from the registration information.
> 
> Also mention if there is *or isn't* any readonly API commands one can
> try without signing up first. (OK... it seems there isn't)

Fine. I shall consider adding this to the man page.

> On the man page
>        galleries.create TITLE [DESCRIPTION [PRIMARY-PHOTO-ID]
>               Create  a  new  galleries  with  TITlE, DESCRIPTION and PRIMARY-
>               PHOTO_ID.
> has an English problem at 'galleries'.
> 
> 
> Words stuck together:
> 
>        people.getPublicGroups USER-NSID
>               Get list of public groups a user is amember of
> 
> Run a spellchecker on the whole documentation suite.

I've done a quick check and sent the patch.

> The man page mentions NSID, etc. without ever saying what that
> acronym stands for, or what it looks like...
> 
> file:///usr/share/doc/flickcurl-utils/coverage.html
> 
>   This page summarizes the Flickr API calls that are supported by
>   Flickcurl. API calls are marked as follows as supported or
>   unsupported.
> 
>   Current Flickr API coverage by Flickcurl: 100.0% (180/180)
> 
> OK, but you want to mention dates or versions or something. Even if
> separately mentioned below.

I leave this to upstream.

I have sent some patches to upstream via Github. They can be seen
here:

https://github.com/dajobe/flickcurl/pull/12

Thanks.

Kumar
-- 
Kumar Appaiah



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