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[bug-gnulib] Re: patch: gnulib-tool --symlink and --aux-dir
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Simon Josefsson |
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[bug-gnulib] Re: patch: gnulib-tool --symlink and --aux-dir |
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Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:59:40 +0200 |
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"Oskar Liljeblad" <address@hidden> writes:
> On Friday, April 15, 2005 at 11:44, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> [..]
>> I think --symbolic is better. I know autoreconf uses --symlink, but I
>> think an abbreviation like that is poor style in a long option. And
>> --symbolic is mentioned in the GNU coding standards.
>
> --symbolic is good with me too. However, "symlink" is useful as a verb
> as well, which "symbolic" isn't.
Ouch, I didn't think of that. Any further opinions from people more
well versed in English and command line parameter naming than me?
Perhaps we should change it to --symlink after all.
>> Shouldn't this be --aux-base, to mimic --m4-base and --source-base?
>> Or possibly the latter two should be changed to --m4-dir and
>> --source-dir?
>
> Quite possible. I decided on --aux-dir because the macro is called
> AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR - the gl macros are _BASE.
I'm leaving this as well until we figure out which is better. It is
not unreasonable to leave them separate, after all, since there is no
autoconf equivalent macro for --m4-base or --source-base AFAIK.
>> Do you want to update the manual to mention this as well?
>
> Below is my attempt at documenting the two additions.
Committed!
Please consider including ChangeLog entries next time.
Thanks,
Simon