On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindf...@iki.fi> wrote: > Ok, I was only thinking about shell scripts that might want to verify > the version number in a programmatic way. > > Even help2man that generates man pages from --help output also wants > --version to work.
Yes, that could be useful. So we might want to keep the --version, but also make it work. For now, any script will have a hard time to find the version among all the output. Is there a standard for the --version output format? Tormod _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
