Hi all, > Dear Michael, > > > Thanks for the patch, Ethan. > > > > This patch looks fine to me, but seeing as we used to support this > > usage before it was reverted in [0], I'd like to see if anyone else > > has comments. The approach you used avoids the code duplication that > > may have been the motivation for its removal. > > I have objections for this patch. I don't like the old style and it's > horribly annoying with tools like unrar and 7z as well. I don't know > why the compression tools all ignore years of established command line > syntax, but I think we shouldn't chime in to this mad play.
I agree too we shouldn't pass that in. One purpose of writing sbase is to guide people into using tools in a “POSIX-ly” correct manner. If we just let in all syntax around then it defeats that purpose.
