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

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Hey Martyn,

I'll await the conclusions of this discussion between you and Juan
before making any changes to Juan's patches.

If you guys reached a consensus, feel free to send me a corrections-
patch, Juan (of course).

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:59 +0100, Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote:
> 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.


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