Hi, > This all sounds like a great idea, but I would suggest that rather than > attempt to be command-line compatible with the existing tool, you > clearly define a set of command line arguments and their corresponding > semantics that you *do* support, ensuring that it is an accurate and > correct subset of the behaviour of the original tool, and implement > that. Ensure this covers the behaviour that is relied upon by the things > that you are aware of already (e.g. calibre). Otherwise 90% of your > effort will be on re-implementing esoteric or awkward features or > behaviours that are not practically required.
yep, that occured to me today when I found that both unrar-free and unrar-nonfree are incompletely documented and have some antifeatures I do not even no any justification for. I think I will go with your proposal and hope the unrar-free and unar maintainers like it as well. Cheers, Nik -- <burny> Ein Jabber-Account, sie alle zu finden; ins Dunkel zu treiben und ewig zu binden; im NaturalNet, wo die Schatten droh'n ;)! PGP-Fingerprint: 3C9D 54A4 7575 C026 FB17 FD26 B79A 3C16 A0C4 F296
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