Dear Developers, First off, I'd like to say that I am a huge fan of Imagemagick. It is so powerful. Thank you all for your work on this great project!
There is one thing I might tweak with the utilities, though. I've noticed that imagemagick seems to be one of the only programs that doesn't conform to the '--' for long options and '-' for short options convention. Standards like these help to flatten the learning curve for new programs and having even one exception to the rule can cause confusion in the heads of the very linux newbies that we want to attract and energize. I fully understand that changing to a '--' format for long options now would break backward compatibility, but what do you think about adding '--' options for every '-' option? For example, both '--adjoin' and '-adjoin' would work for the 'convert' utility. The man/help pages would change to show the new '--' options, but the old ones would still work. Thank you so much for considering this proposal! Sincerely, Andy Doucette _______________________________________________ Magick-developers mailing list Magick-developers@imagemagick.org http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-developers
