Re: [Ekiga-list] Add (-o) logfile argument (like wget)

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 22/12/11 15:52, Genghis Khan wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:01:31 -0400
> Jim Diamond<Jim Diamond acadiau ca>  wrote:
>
> > Just because wget does it does not mean it's a good idea.
> > Why bloat the code (and documentation) with a unneeded option?
> How much of code would a thing like this be? It would not be much.
> What would this add to the documentation?
> It will be more obvious to the users that they can make a
> troubleshooting report and send it to the developers.

If there is a standard we should try to adhere to, then it is surely the 
gnu standard.  At 
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLine-Interfaces.html 
I firstly spoted --version, which is not implemented by ekiga (I will do 
it).

Concerning -o, it is used for output file name 
(http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Option-Table.html), not for 
specifying that the log must be switched on.  Ekiga is not an ordinary 
program, with input and output files.  I would better change it to '-l' 
or -v (verbose, cf. 
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Option-Table.html).  We 
could use -v -o FILE (in addition to -v 4 2>...).  This issues is still 
open for me...

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Eugen