Allison Randal wrote:
Simplification is a good idea. I suspect most people would rather type
some short unique value for the option than the text of the description
anyway.
In the reconfigure/ branch, I have figured out how to do this with the
--fatal-step option
(https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=45525). I will soon
be proposing a patch to trunk for --fatal-step, and it would be great
if --verbose-step and --fatal-step could work in the same manner.
Agreed on wanting consistency here.
I should note that currently you can also specify --verbose-step=53
and have step # 53, and only #53, execute verbosely. How that would
be affected I haven't yet thought through?
Given a choice between the two, I'd rather see the step number in the
non-verbose output:
53) Loading platform and local hints files...........done.
than see the step name:
inter::progs: Loading platform and local hints files...........done.
So, how about we make both --fatal-step and --verbose-step accept either
a step number or step name.
Didn't I hear someone recently remark, "Simplification is a good idea"? ;-)
This is doable, but it will take me at least 9 separate test files to
thoroughly test it.
