On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:32:11PM +0100, David H. wrote: > David R. Morrison wrote: > | 1. I've made a modification to the new UseBinaryDist stuff, introducing > | a flag "--compile-from-source" in addition to the flag > | "--use-binary-dist". My new flag will disable the use of the binary > | distribution for that run only. > | > | There have been some objections about the name of my new flag. Some > | alternative suggestions: "--dont-use-binary-dist" and > | "--no-use-binary-dist". Any opinions? Can we somehow reach a quick > | consensus about this? This needs to appear in a fink release quite soon, > | in order to fix problems with bootstrapping fink. > > - --source-run or --binary-off , just because I HATE typing long > command line switches.
All long-options can be truncated as much as you like, down to the minimum unambiguous root (you can --keep-b, but not just --keep; i fyou do go too short, fink even tells you what the ambiguous possibilities are). That doesn't get us to single-letter shortcuts, but it does help the fingers somewhat. "I know the flag is -b, so --use-b isn't so far-fetched, so --no-use-b is a pretty obvious extension". We've only got 26*2+10 one-char flags; does every rarely-used option (including rarely-used negation of commonly-used options) need one, especially since we've not been too organized with which ones we use now? I don't really care "as long as it's well-documented, it could be anything" as dmalloc would say, but also thinking about how many special cases we need from a code and doc maintainability perspective. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
