Hi Robie, On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Jonathan Robie <[email protected]>wrote:
> How important is consistency in options for Python command line utilities? > > I'm thinking particularly of consistent syntax for options that are > supported in more than one utility. We use some options quite consistently, > e.g. --durable always means the same thing. > > Broker addresses are specified in various ways: > > -a > --broker-addr > --broker-address > a positional argument > > Timeout can usually be specified as "-t" or "--timeout", but in qpid-route, > "-t" means "transport". +1 for keeping consistency with the command line options. I would propose use same argument names in all the places and document all in one place. I found it's extremely difficult to find the required document from our documentation set(wiki etc), but hopefully there are documentations. Thanks Lahiru > Should we care about this? > > Jonathan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected] > >
