Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qemu-doc: Rework the network options chapter to make "-net" less prominent

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 04:14:02PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 17/04/2018 16:05, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> >> For what it's worth, my "[RFC PATCH 00/32] Command line QAPIfication"
> >> replaces the original parsing art by getopt_long_only().
> >>
> >> Completing that work will take some time, but once it's done, we can
> >> (and I think we should) prefer double-dash for consistency.
> > Since our existing parser accepts single & double-dash already, is it
> > worth explicitly deprecating single-dash usage right now. So that when
> > your code comes along ready to merge, we're already able to say
> > "i told you so" and drop single-dash support at that same time.
> 
> Serious questions: is _anyone_ of you actually using double-dash support
> in daily invocations of QEMU?

I rarely invoke QEMU myself, usually just let libvirt do it. So mostly
i just using qemu-img/nbd/etc which expect double-dash. I didn't actually
know QEMU supported double-dash until a year or so ago.

Regards,
Daniel
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