Re: RFR: 8340133: Add concise usage message to the java executable [v10]

2025-03-10 Thread Jaikiran Pai
On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:25:23 GMT, Jan Lahoda wrote: >> Currently, running `java` without any parameters will lead to an output that >> is a full `--help`, which is over 100 lines (on my computer at least), and >> it feels overwhelming. And many people might actually want to run >> JShell/REPL,

Re: RFR: 8340133: Add concise usage message to the java executable [v10]

2024-11-29 Thread Jan Lahoda
On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 17:05:45 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > Shouldn't we try to promote GNU-style long options? (That is, suggest > `--version` instead of `-version`.) I was thinking of that, but shied away from it, because: the current `java` output prints to stderr; this new concise `java`

Re: RFR: 8340133: Add concise usage message to the java executable [v10]

2024-11-29 Thread Alan Bateman
On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:25:23 GMT, Jan Lahoda wrote: >> Currently, running `java` without any parameters will lead to an output that >> is a full `--help`, which is over 100 lines (on my computer at least), and >> it feels overwhelming. And many people might actually want to run >> JShell/REPL,

Re: RFR: 8340133: Add concise usage message to the java executable [v10]

2024-11-29 Thread Magnus Ihse Bursie
On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:25:23 GMT, Jan Lahoda wrote: >> Currently, running `java` without any parameters will lead to an output that >> is a full `--help`, which is over 100 lines (on my computer at least), and >> it feels overwhelming. And many people might actually want to run >> JShell/REPL,

Re: RFR: 8340133: Add concise usage message to the java executable [v10]

2024-11-29 Thread Eirik Bjørsnøs
On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:25:23 GMT, Jan Lahoda wrote: >> Currently, running `java` without any parameters will lead to an output that >> is a full `--help`, which is over 100 lines (on my computer at least), and >> it feels overwhelming. And many people might actually want to run >> JShell/REPL,

Re: RFR: 8340133: Add concise usage message to the java executable [v10]

2024-11-28 Thread Jaikiran Pai
On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:25:23 GMT, Jan Lahoda wrote: >> Currently, running `java` without any parameters will lead to an output that >> is a full `--help`, which is over 100 lines (on my computer at least), and >> it feels overwhelming. And many people might actually want to run >> JShell/REPL,

Re: RFR: 8340133: Add concise usage message to the java executable [v10]

2024-11-28 Thread Jan Lahoda
On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:25:23 GMT, Jan Lahoda wrote: >> Currently, running `java` without any parameters will lead to an output that >> is a full `--help`, which is over 100 lines (on my computer at least), and >> it feels overwhelming. And many people might actually want to run >> JShell/REPL,

Re: RFR: 8340133: Add concise usage message to the java executable [v10]

2024-11-28 Thread Jan Lahoda
> Currently, running `java` without any parameters will lead to an output that > is a full `--help`, which is over 100 lines (on my computer at least), and it > feels overwhelming. And many people might actually want to run JShell/REPL, > not the `java` executable, but it is difficult find out a