Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qemu-doc: Rework the network options chapter to make "-net" less prominent

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 17.04.2018 16:32, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> On 17/04/2018 16:05, Daniel P. Berrangé 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 when
>>> 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.
>>
>> Serious questions: is _anyone_ of you actually using double-dash support
>> in daily invocations of QEMU?
> 
> I use both.  I readily concede that people familiar with QEMU probably
> use single dash a lot more than double dash.  I don't think we should
> get rid of single dash, unless we decide to bite the bullet and clean up
> our command line without regard for backward compatibility, as Thomas
> proposed elsewhere in this thread, and others proposed before, multiple
> times.

/me sings the QEMU version 3.0 blues ...

;-)