Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:18:15 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.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: <20080604041815.GA84027@FreeBSD.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, Jun 03, 2008 at 04:18:23PM +0100, 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. I'd rather avoid long options in *BSD utilities. They're hard to remember, easy to confuse, while not really gaining us anything useful (IMHO of course). ./danfe
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