[env-switcher-devel] [ env-switcher-Feature Requests-877263 ] options require fixed order?

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Feature Requests item #877263, was opened at 2004-01-14 19:14
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Category: Interface Improvements (example)
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jeremy Enos (jenos)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: options require fixed order?

Initial Comment:
If I want to use the --system or --user options... 
they're required to be at the *end* of the command 
line.  I don't see why this is necessary in the first place, 
but it's also not made clear on the syntax page.


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>Comment By: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
Date: 2004-01-16 10:42

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After looking at the code again, I'm unfortunately reminded
of the ugliness that requires this.  It's not even worth
describing.

This is, of course, fixable, but it would probably mean
ditching using the perl AppConfig module that I'm using for
command line parsing (due to limitations of AppConfig), and
then overhauling how I do command line parsing in switcher.
 This isn't hard, but it would probably take 1-3 hours to
re-write and make it "just so".  I just don't have time for
that at the moment.  :-(

So, instead, I updated the help messages and man page (new
section: BUGS) that describes this limitation, and I'll
leave the bug open for the future when/if I have time to
actually go fix this.  :-)

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Comment By: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
Date: 2004-01-14 19:30

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I'll see what I can do here.  IIRC, there were some weird
issues that forced me to put in the strict ordering.  But
that could have all been while I was writing the first
version and just getting it to work.

I'll see if it's easy to do this now...

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