Re: [GUSDEV] standardizing plugin cmd line args

[Steve F. <sfi...@pc...>]

i plan on converting all supported plugins to using 
--externalDatabaseSpec.   from there on out it will be a matter of 
people using the convention when they make a new plugin.



Aaron J. Mackey wrote:

> This is nice candy, but doesn't really solve the problem you've  
> noticed, which is the non-canonicalization of argument names (-- 
> seqTable, --subjectTable, etc. also come to mind).
>
> On Nov 18, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Steve Fischer wrote:
>
>> I think we should have this as the standard argument:
>>   --externalDatabaseSpec "Genbank|1.0.0"
>
>
> So now we can have --extDbSpec, --externalDatabaseSpecification, and  
> everything in between.
>
> -Aaron
>
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