On Mar 19, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Nick Alexander wrote:
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 :(
For reference,
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/3403d3cbd24be221/3b4ab29f1e115961
In any case, I would now be in favor of such a move. As for making the
transition, I'm not a huge fan of trying to control it via environment
variables (at least, once it's beyond the extremely experimental
stage). Once we have the back end, lets start using it by making a
substitution for a fixed list of command, e.g. '-notebook' -> '--
notebook' before invoking . Down the road we can add deprecation
warnings whenever such a substitution is made, and eventually get rid
of this step altogether.
Perhaps keeping the old code around and usable in some form would be
worth it for a while, because bugs here could be rather debilitating.
- Robert
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