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Re: bug in option parsing
From: |
Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
Subject: |
Re: bug in option parsing |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:10:20 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> "Eric" == Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
Eric> Finally, it would be nice if --help had a synonym of -h,
Eric> and --version had a synonym of -V.
I disagree on this point. I prefer to give people the habit to
use --help and --version, which are the only options that are
expected to be supported uniformly by all GNU programs. Also,
if `-V' was added now some people could use it when writing a
`bootscrap.sh' (sic) script that checks the version, and later
discover it fails with older versions: a frustrating waste of
time.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz