On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Dustin<dsalli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Jul 28, 11:04 am, Aaron Stone <sodab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Maybe more esoteric options should come through a single flag, ala >> ssh, where you can have "-o UnusualOption=foo". That reduces the >> number of single-letter flags in the command-line flag namespace. > > Do note that we had a -o issue and some changes to implement it, but > they were rejected. We could revisit it. I think many of the options > might be appropriate for a --obscure kind of setting.
Of course with the caveat that obscure options should still have a very good reason to exist and solid justification for adding code paths. Aaron
