Hi Thanks for the information. I have report this upstream and the report is available in http://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?106347
I'll see if I can get any good answer from there. Best regards, // Ola On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:31:57PM +0200, Kresten Kjeldgaard wrote: > 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 -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
