-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 15/12/2010 19:34, Dan Pascu a écrit : > > I noticed there is some inconsistency with the command line options. We > have so called 'positive' switches that describe an action/condition, > like --set-default or --allow-conflicts and then we have the so called > 'negative' switches that are the opposite of the 'positive' switches. > The 'negative' switches are not very consistent. For example we have > --dont-allow-conflicts and --no-set-default as counterparts for the > aforementioned 'positive' switches. > > I think some of them may benefit from a review and some adjusting. Those > that describe a negated action should use --dont-something when > something is an actiob. In my example --no-set-default could benefit > from that. > I tried to do that some time ago, and I ended up putting --no- everywhere, which seems simpler for non-native english speaker, and because I feel consistency wins over grammatical correctness, especially given that a command line is not a correct sentence at all to begin with. Otherwise, you have to deal with ambiguities (no-test or dont-test); then, for completeness, adverbs/adjectives should be prefixed by not (not verbose/not unified; not recursive is in, though). I leave advanced topics such as the negation of apply-as as an exercise for the reader…
It seems simpler to me to just have consistently --no- everywhere, even if it's harder on the ear. So it's actually the '--dont's that are being (very passively) deprecated. Hence the inconsistency. It would be a good idea indeed to check the documentation with respect to that. That leaves us with "dont-prompt-for-dependencies", which we could rename "with-implicit-dependencies" or "auto-dependencies" to make its function clearer (Thoughts?). Florent -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0J3/wACgkQTCPcDztjGo4nhgCfdofV6XkY7rx4WJdFOss1e4FE 6QQAn1ylK8u2xhDL5nmMD51Xu/qo4pU0 =yh12 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
