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Changed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79208 --- shadow/79208 2006-08-29 12:09:55.000000000 -0400 +++ shadow/79208.tmp.32625 2006-08-29 12:09:55.000000000 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +Bug#: 79208 +Product: Mono: Class Libraries +Version: 1.0 +OS: +OS Details: +Status: NEW +Resolution: +Severity: +Priority: Wishlist +Component: Mono.POSIX +AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +QAContact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +TargetMilestone: --- +URL: +Cc: +Summary: Mono.GetOptions Usage statement should show filename + +NOTE: This has nothing to do with Mono.POSIX but there was no +Mono.GetOptions or generic component option so I just had to pick one. +--- + +The usage statement shown with "--help" prints a line like this: + +"Usage: MyAssemblyName [options]" + +In Mono.GetOptions/OptionList.cs the code looks like this (condensed): + +entry = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly(); +appExeName = entry.GetName().Name; +return "Usage: " + appExeName + " [options]"; + +AssemblyName.Name returns the assembly name but that's not what we want. +As a simple example, the file extension is stripped and so it doesn't even +print MyAssemblyName.exe. Regardless of this, many times there is a small +script in /usr/bin which runs the actual assembly. In this situation, the +name printed in the usage statement may be unrelated to the actual +executable name as the user sees it. + +Parsing the command line via Environment.GetCommandLineArgs() will only +return whatever was passed to /usr/bin/mono and thus won't show what the +user actually typed should a script be used. So perhaps we should back up +a level into Mono.GetOptions.Options and just add an overload to +Mono.GetOptionsOptionList constructor with a parameter to specify the +program name. + +Additionally, perhaps a pre-defined option such as "--exe-name" could be +added to Mono.Options, which would take the commandline name as an +argument. Then in the /usr/bin script, the program author could write +"mono /usr/lib/foo/foo.exe --exe-name $0". + +Just ideas but somehow I would like the ability to get the actual program +name so as to not confuse the user. _______________________________________________ mono-bugs maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-bugs
