On Tue, June 3, 2008 5:18 pm, Florent Thoumie wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Coleman Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:58 -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >>> I am curious what is our policy on using long options in the base >>> system >>> (if any)? I believe that pkg_install is the first non-contributed base >>> system utility to actually widely use it. For some reason I've got >>> impression that use of getopt_long is considered "the Linux/GNU way", >>> this API provided for compatibility purposes and its use in base system >>> is discouraged. Quick grep through /use/src seemingly supports that. >>> >>> Can someone confirm/reject? >> >> I am not sure about policy, however I do appreciate the long options >> sometimes. Primarily, I think they are useful (in a self-documenting >> way) for use in shell scripts. I tend to prefer the single-char options >> when I am doing the administration myself. > > I'm not aware of such policy. > > I think they're useful because as far as pkg_install is concerned, we > are using single-char options that are hard to match to the action > it's doing. Here are a couple examples: > > - pkg_create -h doesn't call usage() because it's already taken. > - it's easy to confuse pkg_info -o and pkg_info -O. > > I'll back it out if general consensus is that long options should be > avoided. > > -- > Florent Thoumie > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > FreeBSD Committer >
I like the change (long opts). Cheers, REmko -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Remko Lodder | [EMAIL PROTECTED] X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
