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Hopefully I'm not the only -spec fan out there with out of date binaries, and 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
>> 
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