Hi Jonathan, > 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.
Ok. > 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". These are not good from a user-friendliness perspective. > Should we care about this? Definitely. They should be consistent across all utilities, python or otherwise. -Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
