On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Jeffrey E. Care <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Gilles Scokart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/19/2008 02:01:53 > PM: > >> Why not using the same logic that we have with ant -p and ant -p >> -v.? We could have ant -v -version and ant -v -diagnostics. > > Having started working on this now, I've discovered there are a few > issues with this approach. > > 1) With the current argument handling logic, this would only work if > the user specifies "-v" first: if user specifies "-version" first > then argument handling stops immediately, the version is shown & Ant > exits. > > 2) When "-v -version" is specified by the user, the current argument > handling logic actually shows the Ant version twice. > > I would prefer not to do a major rewrite of the argument handling > logic just to implement this feature.
Understood, even though it shouldn't be too complex to fix. > Is anyone opposed to adding a new "-fullversion" argument? Fine with me, but please open a bugzilla issue for the second case. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
