On 16 October 2016 at 04:36, INADA Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote: [Serhiy wrote] >> >> Are there precedences of combining verbose and version options in other >> programs? >> > > No, I was just afraid about other programs rely on format of python -V.
That would be my concern as well - while I can't *name* any specific projects that use "python -V" to extract version info (e.g. for filename generation based on MAJOR.MINOR), it's still the obvious thing to call if you need that info and aren't already writing in Python yourself. >> I think it would not be large breakage if new releases of CPython become >> outputting extended version information by default. > > I like it if it's OK. > Does anyone against this? I think adding "verbose version" is a good idea, with a clear and reasonably obvious meaning. While it *is* a little unusual to implement it that way, I don't think that's sufficient reason to break with the established output format for the plain "-V". Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
