Subject: Re: Command-line parameters
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 15:36:41 CDT
At 10:10 PM 8/20/01 +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>According to Patrick Lam <plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu>:
>>
>> But, for instance, we have --nosplash in the GNOME build, and -nosplash in
>> the GTK build. I think that we should make this consistent (on other
>> platforms too, I guess). I'd like to go with the double-dash format.
>>
>> What do people think?
>
>Double dash is MIT^wGNU standard, so go with it :-)
I thought that single-dashes *were* a longstanding Unix convention, and that
more verbose double-dash equivalents are a more recent GNU augmentation that
not everyone likes. But hey, what do I know.
I do know that I've been setting -nosplash as a command-line argument to
numerous Windows apps for far too long now to be happy about changing this
in an XP way.
If anyone's interested in really looking at spiffing up our command-line
support, would it be worth considering adding parser magic so that people
could use as many dashes as they felt comfortable with? Or is that a dumb /
impractical idea?
bottom line
-----------
I don't care if you allow *three* dashes on Unix, so long as that doesn't
violate user expectations on most flavors of Unix. :-)
Paul
motto -- consistency is harder than it looks
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