On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > I understand now. > > I agree that it makes sense to have a way to print the usage in an > easily parsed way. But I don't think that making --help and "help" do > different things is a good distinction, because both forms are common > ways to get a program to give human-readable help. How about using a > different word that is not in as common use, such as a "usage" > command? > > I think this is OK, then. >
Sure, the reason I tried using 'help' was that the 'ovs-appctl help' prints the usages.~ And I did notice that for other commands, the --help and help do the same thing. Anyway, I'll use 'print-format' as the subcommand name, since there is already a 'usage()'. > It might be possible to have the command-line code parse "usage" so > that min_args and max_args do not have to be specified. That is not > necessary as part of a first patch, but it might be a nice refinement > later. Yeah, I'll keep it in my note. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
