Hello, Mike Swierczek <m...@swierczek.io> skribis:
> On 04/15/2017 01:43 PM, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > >> Am 14.04.2017 um 22:57 schrieb Mike Swierczek: >>> I'd much prefer if both the short and long command line arguments >>> accepted their argument in any arrangement. >> I also stumbled over "--show=foo" failing. I suggest guix should follow >> the GNU command lien parsing conventions. Maybe this could be extended >> with the possibility to unambiguous shorten long options. >> > Good idea on unambiguous shortening of long options. That sounds good too. > > I don't mind trying to implement all of this, I just want to make sure > the team likes the idea first. An interesting option (heh!) would be to implement what argp does, which is to allow users to write a prefix of the long option if it’s unambiguous: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Argp.html Apart from that, the conventions we follow are indeed those: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLine-Interfaces.html though the parser we use, (srfi srfi-37), has small differences. Ludo’.
