Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: > >Log: > >Move command line arg --batch to -batch. > >Things are still bit inconsistent due to the existence of additional -- > switches, but the correct fix is not so easy. > > > > Aren't you now destroying the backward compatibility for all the scripts > that people might have made ?
this has been introduced in 2.0 so no backward compatibility issue exists. > Isn't it the 'normal' way of operation to have 2 dashes before a 'long' > parameter. I don't really see the need of changing this for no apparent > reason. there is old unix way of using "-arg". newer way is "-c value" and allowing of mixing chars without args to be mixed together like -cXrGt or --long-option=value (note this "="). lyx started the old way. the inconsitency started when somebody added --execute, --export, --import and adding 1 char synonyms, while 1) leaving old single dashes opts 2) not distinguishing seperate way of args specification. adding --batch makes things even worse. because now there is even no single dash way. > If you want to be consistent, maybe you can add a '-b' parameter in > addition to the '--batch' parameter. This seems to be fairly normal. there is no consistency in our current pars handling. the consitency could be done via either killing additional --options (or at least hide them from man pages). or rewriting the handling to be done correctly the "new way". just adding "-b" won't do. in either way adding just --batch made things worse. pavel
