On 19-Mar-10, at 6:53 AM, Jason Grout wrote:
On 03/18/2010 10:05 PM, John H Palmieri wrote:
Sage uses non-standard command-line options (e.g., -notebook rather
than --notebook). I propose that we switch to standard ones. Here are
two reasons:
+1!
When this issue came up a year or two ago, there seemed to be a
surprising amount of opposition to typing the extra dash, so the
interest in changing the options and parsing waned. I would be very
happy to see us switch to standard GNU option parsing.
+1. In fact, I tried to do this years ago, but my patch broke all
over the place and was bit-bucketed quickly :(
Nick
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