Re: [gnome-love] Command-line usability

[Soyapi Mumba <soyapim yahoo com>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> Here's what the GNU Coding Standards recommend:
> http://www.mirror5.com/prep/standards_18.html

These standards are too general for what I'm looking
for. I'm mainly interested in single-letter options
since these are the ones that can be confusing without
a reference manual. Atleast they have recommeded -o
for output file.

> FWIW, Sun has a similar (but more rigorous) command
line standard called
> CLIP, which is closely aligned with IEEE Std.
1003.1-2001 (SUSv3).  I
> don't think either of those are (freely) available
to read online,
> though.

Thanks Calum for this hint. The closest I have managed
to find is
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5165/6mbb0m9b0?a=view

If we can find a way where people can submit what they
expect from each letter [a-zA-Z] as a command-line
option, we should be able to come up with reasonable
recommendations, considering which options options are
popular for which functions.

Any ideas how we can best do that?

- Soyapi
-- 
Soyapi Mumba
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