On 8/25/14, Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl wrote:
On 25 August 2014 13:50, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
No, zip http://linux.about.com/od/commands/a/blcmdl1_zipx.htm and rar http://comptb.cects.com/using-the-winrar-command-line-tools-in-windows/ both use standard system (note that -r is standard, - *recurse is not) *
No, they don't (but I was also wrong in saying we use the same system they do). Zip has a concept of 'short' and 'long' options, but not in the same sense unix programs do. For zip -dc is very different than zip -d -c, while in the unix way, la -la is equivalent to ls -l -a.
Rar doesn't have a concept of 'long' options - it has various lengths of options, all starting with a single dash, /and/ commands that do not take a dash.
About the leaning system, I think we can keep compatibility for a while and
start deprecate them then. and It's easier to use -p instead of -page ;)
Is it? Or is it instead of -prefixindex? Or instead of -put_throttle? And even if it were easier to use, I don't find that a very convincing argument to force people to change their habits.
prefixindex can be -pi and -putthrottle already is using -pt as an easier option. My main proposal is that we start to accept -p and --page for a while and after like one year we start to deprecate -page. No matter what we want to follow, we need to standardize our argument parsing system (using argparse).
Merlijn
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