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
