[mkgmap-dev] New cmdline switch for splitter.jar

2010-07-09 Thread Markus
Hi list, after realizing that splitter.jar outputs its resulting files in the current working directory of the calling process, I decided to implement a directory-switch. The main motivation is to have a clean file hierarchy for automated OSM conversion scripting. This change might seem

[mkgmap-dev] New cmdline switch for splitter.jar

2010-07-09 Thread Markus
Hi Chris, I in fact called it --output-dir initially. However when I first typed it at the commandline, I caught myself writing --destdir. I realized that --destdir is just the name of the option for a lot of tools when specifying a target directory I'm used to. But if you deem --output-dir

Re: [mkgmap-dev] New cmdline switch for splitter.jar

2010-07-09 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Markus, It's not my code, it's everyone's :) I don't feel particularly strongly about it and in fact was trying to think of examples of other apps without much success. If you think destdir's more commonly used then that's good enough for me. Hi Chris, I in fact called it --output-dir

Re: [mkgmap-dev] New cmdline switch for splitter.jar

2010-07-09 Thread Greg Troxel
Chris Miller chris_overs...@hotmail.com writes: I in fact called it --output-dir initially. However when I first typed it at the commandline, I caught myself writing --destdir. I realized that --destdir is just the name of the option for a lot of tools when specifying a target

[mkgmap-dev] New cmdline switch for splitter.jar

2010-07-09 Thread Markus
Hi, I have to agree with Greg; while reasoning about this kind of motoric automatism, I also came to the conclusion that --destdir is usually used to move stuff (eg. when compiling after code with configure/make), while this isn't the case here. It might be more comprehensible with