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Re: ptx --copyright
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: ptx --copyright |
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Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:34:42 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> Is it time to retire 'ptx --copyright' in favor of the standard
> --version/--help used by all the other coreutils? If so, I can prepare a
> patch that removes this redundant option, and touches up NEWS and
> coreutils.texi accordingly.
How about if we alias it to --version, and deprecate it? That would
avoid breaking anything depending on "ptx -C". (Admittedly unlikely,
but it's nicer to give users some warnings about changes like this.)
- ptx --copyright, Eric Blake, 2006/03/21
- Re: ptx --copyright,
Paul Eggert <=