Steven Bethard schrieb: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Tobias Herp <tobias.h...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Steven Bethard schrieb: >>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Tobias Herp <tobias.h...@gmx.de> wrote: >>>> *Argparse should simply do this like optparse does already.* >>>> I.e., use '--version', '--help' and '-h' by default, but not '-v'. >>> [snip] >>>> The deprecation of the 'version' argument press-gangs people to replace >>>> it by >>>> parser.add_argument('--version', action='version', >>>> version='<the version>', # the only common part >>>> help="show program's version number and exit") >>> >>> What Tobias has conveniently omitted is that there was not much >>> agreement on what the default behavior of the version flag should be. > [snip a bunch of Tobias's opinions on what the default should be] >>> >>> But I'd really like a consensus about the correct behavior, and so far >>> I have not seen that. >> >> We'll have one ;-) > > I hope you can understand that I don't consider your personal opinion > alone as a consensus.
Be careful. There have been other personal opinions, and there are very many *X programs which form a standard which should be followed, and this is a /very strong/ argument, IMO. What you conveniently omitted is that I collected a lot of examples and commented the choices (part of which were part of your poll). Unfortunately you completely ignored these very prosaic arguments. By the way, I just had a look at your poll (currently 81 votes). Correct me if I'm wrong, but... - AFAICS, you didn't provide your audience with any background information, e.g. - how optparse does it (and migration should be as easy as possible, right?) - the existing de-facto standard "--version [-V]" - the choice which reflects my proposal got the most votes (46.9% currently) - 42.0% voted for dropping the version argument, which is a minority (bzw., do you really think the 46.9% would like the version argument to be deprecated?!) which apparently didn't consider the optparse migration/analogy issue. Furthermore, nobody who dislikes the version feature is forced to use it. If 60% had voted for removal of a feature which is important and convenient for 40%, would you remove it? Really? IMO, removal of a feature which is used by 40% is out of the question; and if removal is, deprecation is as well. Back to the actual numbers: dropping the argument is impossible (/and so is deprecation/); drop the 42.0%. Take the remaining numbers: 46.9% voted for the change, and 11.1% against it. Do you take your own poll seriously? -- Tobias _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com