Cannot read property 'apply' of undefined

[christianbundy]

Can someone give me a sanity check when you get a minute?

With ssb-server running somewhere (CLI, Patchwork, Patchbay, etc), I'm getting this instead of the usual help text:

$ node bin.js
Cannot read property 'apply' of undefined

I can still do things like node bin get $msg_key but the default help text is completely borked for me. I've tried rolling back to 13.x but I'm still getting the same issue, which makes me think it must just be me. Right?

[lachenmayer]

I get this as well when I run any command that should render a help message, eg. ssb-server --help.

[dominictarr]

I think this was usage which was a casualty in the recent modularization. normally running sbot without anything would have dumped the full help text (which was too much to be useful, really)

[christianbundy]

Looks to me like that's being output here: https://github.com/ssbc/muxrpcli/blob/134510589589ca5439a6639c93c6e794766e633f/index.js#L55

[dominictarr]

lets say, hypothetically, we had really really good cli usage? what would it look like?
ideas:

• missing a required option would print a short warning about the command you were trying to use, and the required options.
• ssb-server help command... would print a long detailed message.
• an unknown command would print a list of commands (extra points: that seemed similar to the command you used)

some limitations are that each command is in it's own module, so the help should probably live there?

[dominictarr]

oh yeah, I think you still see this now when you have a more recent version of ssb-server running as the client, that interacts with and older version of ssb-server (prehaps running inside of patchbay/work) that doesn't have help methods.

[stale]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?