[Libreoffice] [PATCH] EasyHack: soffice accepts -help/-h/-? in presence of the unix quickstart

[Takeshi Abe]

Hi Kohei,

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:23:04 -0500, Kohei Yoshida <kyoshida at novell.com> 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