Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] EasyHack: soffice accepts -help/-h/-? in presence of the unix quickstart

On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:02:27 -0500, Kohei Yoshida <kyoshida@novell.com> wrote:
> > > I personally would like our startup script to support the standard '--'
> > > type options for long names, and '-' type options for short names just
> > > like everybody else does.  So, I support changing all the command line
> > > options to adhere to this convention.
> > OK, anyway except the "-help/-h/-?" group any of current options have no
> > short-name variant so far as you know. So we have to decide each of them
> > before adopting the above convention.
>
> Well, we don't have to support short-hand names to begin with.  As a
> starter, we can simply convert all our current options to have the '--'
> prefix, without defining any short-hand counterparts.
Agreed, that makes sense.

> How does that sound?
So I would like to follow your point that the "--" prefix would be employed for
all the rest of options if anyone has little urgent concern.

BTW how about the patch which starts this thread?

Cheers,
-- Takeshi Abe