On 20:33 09 Nov 2002, Mikhael Goikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On 09 Nov 2002 18:24:18 +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
| > > 3) We don't install any program to bindir without --help and --version.
| > And "-h", "-?" and "-V" please. In the long run I would like to
| > switch to GNU style long options.
| I think -V is a historical casus and it should better be -v, but let it
| be -V... But not -?, it is not even inputable in many shells, should be
| escaped as -\?.
I beg to differ here. Well, not entirely, but slightly.
My personal opinion is that a program should _always_ emit the usage
listing if it gets a bad option. The GNU behaviour of "bad option, tell
them to run with --help" enrages me. It is only sensible for programs
with very many options; most programs' usage listing will happily fit
on a single 24 lines screen.
With that preamble, in my shells I expect to be able to go
foo -?
to most programs and get a usage message _because_ -? is not a valid
option. And I insist on my shells letting me type an unescaped -?,
and take care not to make stupidly named -* files.
So, what's I'm asking here is that:
- whether you implement an actual -? option doesn't
bug me, provided that _any_ bad option elicits the
full usage string
- if you do implement -?, I request that it definitely
emits a usage message
| > > 4) The programs in the system's bindir should not have any extension.
| > >
| > > Extensions like .sh or .pl are good for files without +x permissions
| > > so that a user could know what interpretter to run on these files.
| > > Additional reasoning:
| > > My /usr/bin has 2002 files. From 280 sh/bash scripts only 11 are *.sh.
And extensions as _so_ tacky.
| > > 5) The programs should have the "fvwm-" prefix for consistency.
| > >
| > > Additional reasoning:
| > > My /usr/bin has 242 files in the dash form like "gnome-bug" and
| > > and only 95 files in the underscore form like "pg_dump".
Besides, on most keyboards "-" doesn't need shift, and "_" does.
Easier to type.
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