Re: [Swig-cvs] gnu commandline options. (Was SWIG/Source/Modules main.cxx,1.78,1.79)

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

Marcelo Matus wrote:
> William S Fulton wrote:
> 
>> Marcelo Matus wrote:
>>
>>> Update of /cvsroot/swig/SWIG/Source/Modules
>>> In directory 
>>> sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv30170/Source/Modules
>>>
>>> Modified Files:
>>>     main.cxx Log Message:
>>> add info about SWIG_FEATURES and -help when no option is found. Use 
>>> --help as alias of -help, following gnu-ish style.
>>>
>> I've sometimes wondered whether we should put in support for gnu -- 
>> type commandline options. The one that is probably most useful is 
>> --version. In the end I've not done anything as if someone starts to 
>> use the gnu style, they might get confused that they don't work with 
>> older versions of SWIG, eg this one might end up in a script to check 
>> the version. However, maybe we could put in more support for some of 
>> the commonly known commandline options? Maybe we should provide an 
>> alias for -- style options for all the options? Any thought?
>>
> 
> well, I just added --help because after you try swig --version, and it 
> doesn't work, the first thing
> you type is swig --help.
> 
> also, -help/--help never appears in  a script and/or makefile, so, it is 
> hard to break back
> compatibility.
> 
Yeah, that's probably the best route then.

William