Re: [GUSDEV] standardizing plugin cmd line args

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

yes, that seems fine.   they can take either one value, or they can be 
list arguments

steve

Elisabetta Manduchi wrote:

>
> Note that there are situations in which more than one ExtDbRelId needs 
> to be passed in to the plugin, for different databases: e.g. RefSeq, 
> DBTSS, etc. Don't know if the plugins currently in Supported have 
> examples of this, but there are certainly plugins that we are writing 
> at CBIL that have this and some of these might one day be moved to 
> GUS::Supported.
> What should the convention be in this case?
> I'm currently using things like:
>
> --refSeqExternalDatabaseSpec
> --dbtssExternalDatabaseSpec
>
> etc.
> Elisabetta
>
> ---
>
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Steve Fischer wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Aaron J. Mackey, Ph.D.
>>> Project Manager, ApiDB Bioinformatics Resource Center
>>> Penn Genomics Institute, University of Pennsylvania
>>> email:  am...@pc...
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>>>
>>
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