Hello everyone, since it is very easy to modify command-line arguments and options with argparse, I want to ask you whether you want to receive short options.
For example, with old gnulib-tool we can type '--import', '--impor', '--impo', etc. But we can't easily type '-i'. It is easy to fix it; short options look nicer and is more native for some users who used to type short options. Can I add short options at least for different modes? --list: -l --find: -f --import: -i --add-import: -a --remove-import: -r --update: -u --test: -t --megatest: -m --create-testdir: -td --create-megatestdir: -tm --copy-file: -c --extract-description: -xdescr/-xi --extract-comment: -xc --extract-status: -xs --extract-notice: -xn --extract-applicability: -xa --extract-filelist: -xf --extract-dependencies: -xdeps/-xd --extract-autoconf-snippet: -xac --extract-automake-snippet: -xam --extract-include-directive: -xinc/-xlink --extract-license: -xl --extract-maintainer: -xm I know that usually GNU applications prefer to use long options, but I think that short options can be very useful. What do you think? I send this mail to this list, because here more people can tell what they think about it.
