Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:52:56AM CET: > > 1) allowed by the GCS to produce --help output, > > Certainly. There is nothing in the coding standards that forbids it. > > > 2) required by the GCS to produce --help output. > > Certainly not. There is nothing in the coding standards that requires it. > > In other words, you can make --help and --version work after invalid > options if you want to. But you don't have to. Either way is ok. > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/7434 > > And yes, as pointed out by Stefano, the result of this non-specification > is that different programs may behave differently wrt invalid options > and --help/--version. This doesn't seem like a problem to me, because > neither interpretation seems obviously better/less "surprising" to me. > If this isn't good enough and you want me to get rms's opinion on the > matter, let me know.
That's good enough for me. Thanks! Ralf
