create drush aliases on quickstart-create

If I understand the issue, this means as part of drush quickstart-create --domain=blah.dev will also have an option to create an alias file: ~/.drush/blah.aliases.drushrc.php -- with at least a local alias.

Hmm, how would you feed the info (path/ssh user/db user/etc ...) for stage/production? Starting to think this is more of a drush feature that quickstart can utilize. Heck, does it already exist?

Hi Mike.

Would the alias be useful locally? Such as the site created us blah.dev and the alias created is @blah_dev. Then drush cc all @blah_dev would clear the cache for the site blah.dev, no matter what directory drush was run from.

I could see this as useful, though I just habitually switch to the directory of the site I'm working in. However it could be useful to say run drush commands on multi local sites.

This is probably just a nice to have.

We could take a contrib / patch for it, if someone really wants it. Thoughts?

@Sean, drush supports @self as default alias. The real qustion I have would be how to cleanly / simply create a default alias. It'd definitely be a nice to have each time you setup a site ... but most of my thoughts are in #2. To try to be more clear, I don't see a way to automate this ... I also don't like the idea of passing passwords through a shell prompt as part of a command (means password gets stored in a log, and is bad practice).

But mostly, I'm not convinced this is a quickstart feature as much as its a drush feature. (and for all I know, already exists). I'd like more input from the community. Maybe when/if we split off the quickstart drush commands as a module, then maybe makes more sense.

I'm removing assignment to me since I'm no longer maintaining the 7.x-2.x branch (its moved to DrupalPro Development Desktop), and I'm not sure of the future of Quickstart 2.x except that it wont be based on Ubuntu 12.04LTS (Unity)