Tony Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/26/2008 11:24:47 AM: > Why not use '-V' for version, and '-v' for verbose (or vice versa)? > Perl and Python both do this (opposite ways round, as it happens). > Ruby uses '-v' for both (see man page); make and cc use '-v' for > version, awk and grep use '-V'; there's no existing 'standard', so > it's just a question of which way round. If we're voting, my +1 would > be for '-V' -> version.
Ant already uses "-v" for verbose logging and "-version" to show it's own version information. Gilles proposed that combining "-v" and "-version" (i.e. "verbose version") should trigger showing the Antlib version information in addition to Ant's version. I thought that was a great idea, but having started working on this feature I've found that it's not feasible to combine these two switches without a major rewrite of the command line argument handling logic. I think using "-V" for the Antlib version switch would be terribly confusing, especially that "-v" means verbose, not version. I'm flexible on the name, but I think that the option to show Antlib version info should have it's own switch.
