Re: [Tracker] [PATCH 00/10] Add option to show version

["Juan A. Suarez Romero" <jasuarez igalia com>]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:27 +0800, Martyn Russell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Philip, can you please change the patches to not use -v. It is not a 
> good option to use. It is typically used for verbosity. Please use -V 
> instead.

Really, there isn't an agree about -v or -V to show version. A lot of
programs use -v (gconftool, gcc, gitps, ...), while others use -V
(gnome-system-log, gpart, grep, ...).

So I chose "-v" except for one, where "-v" was already choosen.

> Also, I am not sure it makes any sense to do this. The commands have
> no 
> version of their own, they are all the same version as the tracker 
> package that is installed. It just adds more command line options.


Comment #2 in GB#601799 was complaining about the lack of this option.

For me, this is the kind of option that I would expect in a program,
like "-?/-h/--help". In fact, they should be standardized :)

        J.A.