From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAsYF-0000Xp-6y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:45:23 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAsYD-0000VM-MP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:45:22 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAsYD-0000V4-GH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:45:21 -0500 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HAsYC-0008Rc-UW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:45:21 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vl.c Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:38:30 +0000 References: <45BB9860.1010004@mail.berlios.de> In-Reply-To: <45BB9860.1010004@mail.berlios.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701271838.30774.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:22, Stefan Weil wrote: > Paul Brook schrieb: > > Log message: > > Accept --foo as an alias for -foo. > > Great. Most command line programs use --foo for > long parameters. Will this be the new standard > for QEMU, so documentation should be changed? > I'd appreciate that. I've no particularly strong preference. My main motivation was to make --help work :-) Th normal convention is for long option to use -- and single letter options to use -, with -foo being equivalent to -f -o -o. Obviously this would break backwards compatibility, so I'm not sure we want to go that far. Paul