On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:42:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Giving the impression that ordering of arguments is not significant >is not a good idea in general. Although what you're looking for is >an extreme, the fact that you can generally interchange the order >of flags ( grep -i -c *.c vs grep -c -i *.c) does generate expectations >for all tools. This uniformity isn't going to be met by all tools (like >gcc and linker flags). So adding to the flexibility as you suggest would >only tend to increase the inquiries and problems folks currently have for >these kinds of tools. I don't think it's wise to look at making any tool >accept any argument in any order. I expect you'd find this isn't practical >anyway. But, that's just my opinion and it ain't worth much! ;-)
I agree with your opinion but I don't mind adding an environment variable option to control the behavior. It will take a long time for this change to make it into every cygwin package which uses getopt, though. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
