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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.edu> wrote:
At 6:18pm -0400 Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Christian Lohmaier wrote:

I personally disagree that an alphabetically sortet list is best.
e.g. now the font inclusion options wrt dejavu and liberation fonts
are spread apart, build tool options are interspread the
feature/code switches, extension-switches are mixed with core ones,
etc.

I personally don't like that part of the patch.

And butting in to the conversation, may I offer a middle of the road
suggestion?  I find alphabetizing very helpful, both as an end user and as a
developer.  However, you do make an excellent point that related options
need to still be together.  Solution: argument groups.

I don't actually know this environment, but if I may point you to Python's
Argument Parsing module for a moment, I claim that it has an intuitive API
for just this purpose:

http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html

Take note as well of argument groups (Section 15.4.5.3).

fwiw: I like functional grouping too.
pure alphabetical is useful when you know the name of the option you
are looking for. most of the time, I find myself fishing for something
that may be related for the issue I have... without knowing the name
of the option in advance....

Norbert




A thought,

Kevin
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