On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 03:30:15PM -0700, Alex Wang wrote: > 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.~
Yes. In retrospect, this was my mistake: it has confused people more than once. > 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()'. OK. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
