[PATCH modular] Remove -f and -r options.

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 05:45:33 PST 2010


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why don't you make -f and -r map to --autoresume instead of removing
>> them.
>
> Well, I was hoping to free up those options, in case someone finds
> something new to add, and remove un/little-used cruft :-)

I would think changing the interface on people with no warning would
be something to avoid. But I'm not really using build.sh, so if other
people agree then don't let me stop the train.

>> In fact, I'd think
>> -f/--file would be a nicer option name to keep than --autoresume.
>
> "autoresume" is quite a lot more descriptive than "file"; we also have
> "modfile" which requires an optional file parameter. So there are two
> options which require a file, naming one of them "file" wouldn't be
> very helpful :-)

I forgot about --modfile.

--
Dan


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