Re: gnulib-tool --help

2006-07-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > What was your problem with the --help output originally? > > Originally, all I noticed was that the locution > ... Directory relative --dir where ... > reads as bad English to me, and it should be (I think) > ... Directory relative to --dir where ... Right. I keep thi

Re: gnulib-tool --help

2006-07-20 Thread Karl Berry
This is non unanimous; can you please notify the mailing list before such changes? Sorry, I thought it was trivial and uncontroversial. Obviously not. Can you please revert that patch? Done I hope. 1. Alphabetical order is the worst order, except in an index. Before, the opt

gnulib-tool --help

2006-07-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Karl, A few days ago you checked in the appended patch. This is non unanimous; can you please notify the mailing list before such changes? In particular, I disagree with the entire patch: 1. Alphabetical order is the worst order, except in an index. Before, the options were listed in a