Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:45:38 +0200 (CEST) From: "Remko Lodder" <remko@elvandar.org> To: "Florent Thoumie" <flz@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@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: <33dfad267556d52723e95461f5eb7c34.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <a01628140806030818te29e2fet287d59f5ceedfc9c@mail.gmail.com> References: <200805301426.m4UEQ92d025434@repoman.freebsd.org> <48405C4B.3050603@FreeBSD.org> <1212179252.1967.1.camel@localhost> <a01628140806030818te29e2fet287d59f5ceedfc9c@mail.gmail.com>
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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). Cheers, REmko -- /"\ Best regards, | remko@FreeBSD.org \ / Remko Lodder | remko@EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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