On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:10:24 -0500 Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
My 2 cents: portability is important, and code conciseness is more important then having a fancy interface with many possibilities. Isn't it just redundant/bloat to support both long and short ones?
No.... there are only so many letters of the alphabet and we still have many long options without letters assigned to them that have no obvious shortening.
No, if anything I'd drop short options and keep long, but there would be a lot of pushback.
Does it matter if it works, and several people here can understand it well enough? Most people didn't even know we did this until today and we surely didn't hear objections when it went in, so it clearly isn't that bad...
-Dan
Hmm this was about makepkg right? makepkg --help | grep '-' | wc -l 24 lowercase + uppercase gives you 52 options. Dieter