"Oskar Liljeblad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday, April 15, 2005 at 11:44, Simon Josefsson wrote: > [..] >> I think --symbolic is better. I know autoreconf uses --symlink, but I >> think an abbreviation like that is poor style in a long option. And >> --symbolic is mentioned in the GNU coding standards. > > --symbolic is good with me too. However, "symlink" is useful as a verb > as well, which "symbolic" isn't.
Ouch, I didn't think of that. Any further opinions from people more well versed in English and command line parameter naming than me? Perhaps we should change it to --symlink after all. >> Shouldn't this be --aux-base, to mimic --m4-base and --source-base? >> Or possibly the latter two should be changed to --m4-dir and >> --source-dir? > > Quite possible. I decided on --aux-dir because the macro is called > AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR - the gl macros are _BASE. I'm leaving this as well until we figure out which is better. It is not unreasonable to leave them separate, after all, since there is no autoconf equivalent macro for --m4-base or --source-base AFAIK. >> Do you want to update the manual to mention this as well? > > Below is my attempt at documenting the two additions. Committed! Please consider including ChangeLog entries next time. Thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
