On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 04:53:28PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Hi > > Thanks a lot for the patch. I'm not sure I want to change the default > compared to > "upstream". I would actually prefer to change the documentation in that case. > > Do you have an other opinion about this?
First of, I'm not personally using this software I just happened to be on the same IRC channel as the original submitter and had nothing better to do at the time so I started looking at it. Personally I agree with the original submitter that having a default which consists of writing $inputfilename.html overwriting anything happening to be there already in the process seems wrong on some level. So I went with the assumption that the built in help function described the intended way, and the code somehow went wrong along the way. I have since determined the upstream 2.9 has the same behaviour as the debian package, as well as the same broken --help description. Actually the whole -o/--output scheme seems to be broken upstream, I never managed to make it do anything but STDOUT and $filename.html, no matter what I specified. Perhaps the best thing is to simply report this issue to upstream and check what their oppinion is on what should be the correct behaviour and then take it from there? Then we can at some point send them a patch which at least makes the behaviour and the --help text consistent. Please let me know your thoughts about the above. -- Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards Kresten Kjeldgaard aka Gathond For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken
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