Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:46:44 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: remko@elvandar.org Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add main.c pkg_add.1 src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/create main.c pkg_create.1 src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete main.c pkg_delete.1 src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info main.c pkg_info.1 ... Message-ID: <48457574.20108@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <33dfad267556d52723e95461f5eb7c34.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org> References: <200805301426.m4UEQ92d025434@repoman.freebsd.org> <48405C4B.3050603@FreeBSD.org> <1212179252.1967.1.camel@localhost> <a01628140806030818te29e2fet287d59f5ceedfc9c@mail.gmail.com> <33dfad267556d52723e95461f5eb7c34.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org>
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Remko Lodder wrote: > On Tue, June 3, 2008 5:18 pm, Florent Thoumie wrote: >> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:58 -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >>>> I am curious what is our policy on using long options in the base >>>> system >>>> (if any)? I believe that pkg_install is the first non-contributed base >>>> system utility to actually widely use it. For some reason I've got >>>> impression that use of getopt_long is considered "the Linux/GNU way", >>>> this API provided for compatibility purposes and its use in base system >>>> is discouraged. Quick grep through /use/src seemingly supports that. >>>> >>>> Can someone confirm/reject? >>> I am not sure about policy, however I do appreciate the long options >>> sometimes. Primarily, I think they are useful (in a self-documenting >>> way) for use in shell scripts. I tend to prefer the single-char options >>> when I am doing the administration myself. >> I'm not aware of such policy. >> >> I think they're useful because as far as pkg_install is concerned, we >> are using single-char options that are hard to match to the action >> it's doing. Here are a couple examples: >> >> - pkg_create -h doesn't call usage() because it's already taken. >> - it's easy to confuse pkg_info -o and pkg_info -O. >> >> I'll back it out if general consensus is that long options should be >> avoided. >> >> -- >> Florent Thoumie >> flz@FreeBSD.org >> FreeBSD Committer >> > > I like the change (long opts). +1 I don't see why we should abandon something that is convenient for our users just because Linux does it. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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