On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:32:18 +0100 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/1/19, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Since the modern version requires --watch, and newbies will have > > modern versions by default in their new distros, I say we go with > > --watch. Anybody who's still running slackware from 1998 is not a > > newbie, so they'll be able to figure out how to modify this file > > to suit their own needs. > > I know multi-letters argument are usually introduced with a double > dash, so I guess this provides better compatibility. Besiodes, in a > package I tried to check ( a Mandriva 2008 rpm), the man-page mentions > [-]-watch > ...which hardly makes sense :) Surely that means that you can provide -watch or --watch. It's possible that this is an intermediate version where the old command was kept for compatibility. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
