From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42703) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8RTg-00025F-PG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:21:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8RTe-0002tK-2G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:21:00 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:57432 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8RTd-0002sK-Ur for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:20:58 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BE378DC30 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:20:57 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:20:50 +0100 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= Message-ID: <20180417142050.GG15421@redhat.com> Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= References: <1520839658-20499-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> <2a85941f-48bf-9e9b-0d6d-832a270d882b@redhat.com> <7413bf34-63ec-837d-d418-af2cfd1038d7@redhat.com> <87efjeaqd2.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <20180417140540.GD15421@redhat.com> <21d78c43-a6d9-95d8-ff3e-f80a9ce6b0c0@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21d78c43-a6d9-95d8-ff3e-f80a9ce6b0c0@redhat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qemu-doc: Rework the network options chapter to make "-net" less prominent List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Markus Armbruster , Eric Blake , Thomas Huth , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jason Wang On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 04:14:02PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 17/04/2018 16:05, Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 wrote: > >> For what it's worth, my "[RFC PATCH 00/32] Command line QAPIfication= " > >> replaces the original parsing art by getopt_long_only(). > >> > >> Completing that work will take some time, but once it's done, we can > >> (and I think we should) prefer double-dash for consistency. > > Since our existing parser accepts single & double-dash already, is it > > worth explicitly deprecating single-dash usage right now. So that whe= n > > your code comes along ready to merge, we're already able to say > > "i told you so" and drop single-dash support at that same time. >=20 > Serious questions: is _anyone_ of you actually using double-dash suppor= t > in daily invocations of QEMU? I rarely invoke QEMU myself, usually just let libvirt do it. So mostly i just using qemu-img/nbd/etc which expect double-dash. I didn't actually know QEMU supported double-dash until a year or so ago. Regards, Daniel --=20 |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberran= ge :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.c= om :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberran= ge :|