On 17.04.2018 16:32, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes: > >> On 17/04/2018 16:05, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >>>> For what it's worth, my "[RFC PATCH 00/32] Command line QAPIfication" >>>> replaces the original parsing art by getopt_long_only(). >>>> >>>> Completing that work will take some time, but once it's done, we can >>>> (and I think we should) prefer double-dash for consistency. >>> Since our existing parser accepts single & double-dash already, is it >>> worth explicitly deprecating single-dash usage right now. So that when >>> your code comes along ready to merge, we're already able to say >>> "i told you so" and drop single-dash support at that same time. >> >> Serious questions: is _anyone_ of you actually using double-dash support >> in daily invocations of QEMU? > > I use both. I readily concede that people familiar with QEMU probably > use single dash a lot more than double dash. I don't think we should > get rid of single dash, unless we decide to bite the bullet and clean up > our command line without regard for backward compatibility, as Thomas > proposed elsewhere in this thread, and others proposed before, multiple > times.
/me sings the QEMU version 3.0 blues ... ;-)
