Re: [Bashburn-info] Install.sh options

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Monday, Sep 29th 2008 at 13:09 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:

=>On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:05:20 -0400 (EDT)
=>"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:
=>
=>> =>Well, I find it a bit brain dead if a user mistypes '--prefix' as
=>> =>'-prefix' and it installs into a directory called 'refix'.
=>> =>
=>> =>BTW, SVN is back up
=>> 
=>> yabut your solution seems to imply that short options should be 
=>> constrained to uppercase (even if they *don't* take an argument).
=>> Remember that creating options is not just a question of SVR4
=>> compatibility; it's also a question of following conventions to make
=>> it more familiar.
=>> 
=>> e.g., -h == help
=>>       -v == verbose
=>>       -V == Version info
=>>       -c == alternate configfile
=>>       -d == directory spec
=>>       -i == install
=>>       -l == long output
=>>       -n == don't do it but tell me what you want to do
=>>       -o == output
=>>       -q == query status returned
=>>       -R == recurse
=>>       -t == set a type
=>>       -u == uninstall
=>> 
=>
=>OK, I understand.  But there must be a way to stop it?  Unless I am
=>messing to much.  I will have to try other install apps stuff to see :-D

I dunno. If you really hate it, I suppose we could hardwire a check in to 
see if the arg to -p is refix and reject it unless the user also adds a -f 
option (or --force) to force it. ;-)

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