On Mar 22, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Guglielmetti, Robert wrote: > On 3/22/13 3:14 PM, "Axel Jacobs" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> This is fixable, and I'd be happy to do this. To my excuse, however, I >> must say that the arg parser in any of the csh scripts in Radiance, and >> probably in many of the Perl scripts, too, is not terribly >> sophisticated. It does its job, but not all possible errors are caught. > > > Agreed, I will say that Ruby has a nice class for this stuff, but in the > end it's probably not much more robust than whatever Perl's got going on. > >> Existing Perl parsers are good with -s or --short-option style things. >> When you throw -a+ vs -a- at them, they just give up. Making this work >> properly is a helluva job. >> >> So should -spec be treated as -pal spec (probably not), or should it >> throw up a more meaningful error message e.g. 'deprecated'? > > I vote a deprecated error, along with a pointer to the newer -pal option & > syntax.
Agreed - a pointer to the newer -pal option would be great, it might help a few souls like myself discover the new colorscales. Best part of my week (well, my Radiance week) was stumbling upon the new heat map scale. MM
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