On Mar 12, 2021, at 6:32 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com<mailto:alan.bate...@oracle.com>> wrote:
On 11/03/2021 15:25, Lance Andersen wrote: The only reason I included it is for completeness with tar which the jar options were originally derived from. I think it would be surprising to have two GNU-style long options so I think we should pick one. "--dir" seems okay to me and is consistent with the other the other JDK tools that extract to a directory (although those tools might not be well known). If you prefer "--directory" then I think we'll should add it to the other tools and hide "--dir" from the usage output. I don’t have a strong preference but lean slightly towards ‘-directory’ as it is more descriptive, similar to the other GNU-style commands jar currently supports . Tar supports ‘—cd’, ‘—directory’ in addition to ‘-C’ which is why I suggested supporting both GNU-style long options. Perhaps jpackage should also support —dir/directory in addition to ‘—dest' if we are looking at consistency between java tools. I do agree that it would be nice to be consistent across the java tools for options so if we go the ‘-directory’, we should follow your suggestion and make it the primary and remove ‘—dir’ from the usage output. -Alan [cid:E1C4E2F0-ECD0-4C9D-ADB4-B16CA7BCB7FC@home] Lance Andersen| Principal Member of Technical Staff | +1.781.442.2037 Oracle Java Engineering 1 Network Drive Burlington, MA 01803 lance.ander...@oracle.com<mailto:lance.ander...@oracle.com>
