On dinsdag 12 mei 2020 10:51:28 CEST Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Nothing new here, and everything is properly documented.
The bugreport was not about a disconnect between documentation and the tool, the bugreport is a usability bug which stems from the fact that the command line parser behaves differently from every single other commandline parser average people like me have ever used. A near 100% of the command line tools on your Gnu/Linux box will behave differently than guix does now. C apps using libc, python apps using their parser, even C++ apps using the Qt commandline classes, all are generally compatible with regards to behavior. Only Guix is different. > However (srfi srfi-37) does it as we see it now. Fixing it would mean > implementing a different option parser. Then fix that parser. It is inconsistent with the rest of the world and as long as it is end-user-facing this inconsistency is a usability bug. A rather massive one, I might say as this is about as core to the user-interaction of the platform as it can get. -- Tom Zander
