I've been thinking about this.
output is nicely symmetrical with input and in the case of a default
app-image it is more than a single item
and personally I'd much rather it not clutter my working directory and
again you get symmetry with input
which you really want to specify but I'd concede it to be "." as a
default over changing the name to dest ...
There is also precedent :
jlink uses -output and these two tools are going to be frequently used
together.
So I would like to see the status quo.
-phil.
On 9/3/19, 11:58 AM, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote:
- The `--output`/`-o` option is confusing. It doesn’t name the output
itself, but rather a directory into which the single item of output
will be placed. Typing `-o .` all the time is just annoying. It’d
be more logical to rename this option to `--dest`/`-d` and to make it
optional, with a default value of `.`.
