Hi Kohei, On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:23:04 -0500, Kohei Yoshida <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 12:44 +0900, Takeshi Abe wrote: (snip) >> Although fixing the -help/-h/-? action in presence of the unix quickstarter, >> it does not support --help yet. >> I wonder whether soffice should accept the alternative syntax of long prefix >> "--" for not only 'help' but also all the rest of options or not? > > I personally would like our startup script to support the standard '--' > type options for long names, and '-' type options for short names just > like everybody else does. So, I support changing all the command line > options to adhere to this convention. OK, anyway except the "-help/-h/-?" group any of current options have no short-name variant so far as you know. So we have to decide each of them before adopting the above convention.
> > If we want to be cautious, we could still support the current options > with a '-' prefix in addition to the new ones, in which case we could > spit deprecation warning and suggestion to use the new option syntax in > the future when the old options are still passed. That should give > people enough chance to re-write their scripts etc. Thanks for your suggestion, sounds reasonable to me. Cheers, -- Takeshi Abe _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
