Hi Axel - Thanks! This works, and seems like a good error message. Hopefully I'm not the only -spec fan out there with out of date binaries, and others will benefit from this update.
MM On Mar 22, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Axel Jacobs wrote: > Michael, > > could you give this a try and let me know if it works for you. I'm not saying > 'read the man page', because I'm not sure how this is (or is going to be) > done on Windows. All right? > > I have taken the liberty to add a new '-pal eco' which I promised to submit > almost a year ago. > > There is also a new -cp (posterise) option that has been in HEAD for a while. > Just needs mentioning on the man page. > > @Greg, > please give us your opinion on the current implementation. I'm touching up > the man page now. It needs the -cp option, and also the sponsor of the -pal > eco option. Will report back.... > > Cheers > > Axel > > On 03/22/2013 09:47 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. >> >> Thanks Axel! >> >> - Rob >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Radiance-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-dev >> > > <falsecolor-aj-20130322.pl>_______________________________________________ > Radiance-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-dev
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