On Thursday 21 April 2005 19:07, Tony wrote:
> Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> > The question is what should we do for 1.10? Document the
> > unreadable names and cryptic values, and have to support
> > them until eternity?
>
> My vote is to change them to more reasonable syntax (as you suggested
> earlier in the note) for 1.10 and include the new syntax in the
> documentation. However, I think wget should to continue to support the old
> options and syntax as alternatives in case people have included them in
> scripts.
I agree. I don't believe it is absolutely necessary to change the names,
though. I would probably copy&paste them, or look to bash-completion for
help.
I think removing them is a bad idea. Even if very few people use them, it good
to have them. Personally, I've used --sslprotocol a couple of times. IMO, all
these choices are what makes Linux console utils so powerful.
And finally, I really miss the documentation of these features. I was really
surprised when I found features documented in "wget --help" but not in the
man-pages (I would have expected otherwise).
That's my two cents, anyway. Keep up the good work.
-Johannes
