Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:18:23 +0100 From: "Florent Thoumie" <flz@FreeBSD.org> To: "Coleman Kane" <cokane@freebsd.org> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@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: <a01628140806030818te29e2fet287d59f5ceedfc9c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1212179252.1967.1.camel@localhost> References: <200805301426.m4UEQ92d025434@repoman.freebsd.org> <48405C4B.3050603@FreeBSD.org> <1212179252.1967.1.camel@localhost>
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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
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