[RFC] use optparse for option handling

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Fri Jul 14 04:08:08 BST 2006


On 13 Jul 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> > What do you mean by 'weird coupling'?
> 
> Just places where the English natural negative is: --non-foo rather than
> --no-foo
> 
> Like --no-verbose, --non-verbose is more grammatical. But probably
> consistency out-weighs trying to make it sound lnice.

Some options like --help or --dry-run don't make sense to
have as a negative, but it's probably not a big deal.  Perhaps the
negative form should be hidden in help.

-- 
Martin




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