From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Swierczek Subject: Re: Guix command line flag consistency Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:34:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4d3b4372-311a-45b8-67b0-0732245fba6f@swierczek.io> References: <0f4a960b-68dd-8f82-6bea-f6ce08d59e91@swierczek.io> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60073) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1czTT6-0003uv-Vo for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:34:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1czTT3-0007ab-Sz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:34:49 -0400 Received: from swierczek.io ([45.33.77.97]:43386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1czTT3-0007Zw-Ok for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:34:45 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.139] (c-73-233-204-83.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [73.233.204.83]) by swierczek.io (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D04A1D75D for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 19:34:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org On 04/15/2017 01:43 PM, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 14.04.2017 um 22:57 schrieb Mike Swierczek: >> I'd much prefer if both the short and long command line arguments >> accepted their argument in any arrangement. > I also stumbled over "--show=foo" failing. I suggest guix should follow > the GNU command lien parsing conventions. Maybe this could be extended > with the possibility to unambiguous shorten long options. > Good idea on unambiguous shortening of long options. That sounds good too. I don't mind trying to implement all of this, I just want to make sure the team likes the idea first. -Mike