[haiku-development] Re: Haiku command line apps
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:30:37 +0200 CEST
"scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In going through the various parts of the system to check out ticket
> #1222, I have come across many different command line utilities.
> It's
> easy to spot the ones from GNU, since the command line options
> --version or --help give useful information about the app. Not so
> for
> a lot of the other ones, this includes the Haiku specific ones.
> Programs such as alert, beep, copyattr, makebootable and others. I
> figured I would float the idea on this list to see if perhaps we
> should add support for the --version and/or --help / -h options on
> the
> Haiku specific command line apps. I see that copyattr has the -h /
> --help, but no --version. In some cases such as beep adding this
> option might double the size of the code ;)
I think there is little need for --version in code that comes from
Haiku (you can always use "version my-bin-command", and that should be
consistent with what --version delivers if it's there).
But I think all commands should support --help (and possibly -h, too).
Bye,
Axel.
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