Re: bug in option parsing

[Eric Blake]

Thanks for your quick patches!

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>  Eric> Finally, it would be nice if --help had a synonym of -h,
>  Eric> and --version had a synonym of -V.
>
> I disagree on this point.  I prefer to give people the habit to
> use --help and --version, which are the only options that are
> expected to be supported uniformly by all GNU programs.  Also,
> if `-V' was added now some people could use it when writing a
> `bootscrap.sh' (sic) script that checks the version, and later
> discover it fails with older versions: a frustrating waste of
> time.

A convincing enough argument.  I had asked about this because the cygwin 
automake wrapper (and probably wrappers provided by several other 
distributions), designed to choose between automake 1.4 and 1.9, was 
supporting -h and -V even though automake itself was not.  I guess this 
particular bug is in the wrapper script, then.

--
Someday, I might put a cute statement here.

Eric Blake             address@hidden