bzr version command -- deprecate?

[Jari Aalto]

Matthew Hannigan <mlh at zip.com.au> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:58:06PM +0100, Denys Duchier wrote:
>
>> Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> writes:
>> 
>> > I agree with the sentiment - but should it be deprecated (ie give a
>> > warning), or just dropped?  
>> 
>> My vote would be to drop it.  
>
> Yeah, drop it.  I realised after I sent it that I had deprecate
> in the subject but drop in the body.
>
>
>> I'd even like to drop "help" in favour of the global --help option,
>> but that's probably too extreme. I would just prefer that commands
>> be about the user's stuff and not about bzr, but that's probably
>> just me.
>
> I think help is fine; it should be easy to get help.
> It probably should be the sole self-referential command - at least,
> I can't think of any others.


I vote for drop for both. There is no need to keep functionality that
has changed in development version.

It's traditional to ask -h or --help, and not to call command "help".

Jari