Hi, On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 03:46, Paul L. Allen wrote: > > I think we should just ignore the "old" way of calling vaddaliasdomain > > in the usage message, in that way new users will adobt the "new" way of > > doing things. > Ummm, that implies that one way is more "correct" than the other. I do > not believe that to be the case. I believe that one way is more natural > to some of us than the other and that each of us should be able to use > the interface we prefer.
Well... I have nothing to say. > > The autosensing will ensure that we don't brake old script > Yeah, old scripts will still work. But old sysadmins like me will get > confused (I'm old, it's nearly 3am and I've had a lot of wine so I'm > easily confused). We do something and it works and then later we look at > the usage message and find that it COULD NOT HAVE WORKED. That causes to > go > diving into the code to see what the hell is happening... The usage > message MUST explain both alternatives. It will be a little clumsy, to > be sure, but it must explain both alternatives. Hummm.... Or something like: "... the two domains to be aliased ..." - without saying which is which, for the user it doesn't matter much. A usage like: "vaddaliasdomain [options] domain-a.tld domain-b.tld" - nothing to be confused about. /Anders
