Hey Martyn, I'll await the conclusions of this discussion between you and Juan before making any changes to Juan's patches.
If you guys reached a consensus, feel free to send me a corrections- patch, Juan (of course). On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:59 +0100, Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:27 +0800, Martyn Russell wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Philip, can you please change the patches to not use -v. It is not a > > good option to use. It is typically used for verbosity. Please use -V > > instead. > > Really, there isn't an agree about -v or -V to show version. A lot of > programs use -v (gconftool, gcc, gitps, ...), while others use -V > (gnome-system-log, gpart, grep, ...). > > So I chose "-v" except for one, where "-v" was already choosen. > > > > > Also, I am not sure it makes any sense to do this. The commands have > > no > > version of their own, they are all the same version as the tracker > > package that is installed. It just adds more command line options. > > > Comment #2 in GB#601799 was complaining about the lack of this option. > > For me, this is the kind of option that I would expect in a program, > like "-?/-h/--help". In fact, they should be standardized :) > > J.A. > > > -- Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org http://pvanhoof.be/blog http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
