Re: save options handling

[David Bateman]

Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

> John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> > On 29-Apr-2005, Bill Denney wrote:
> >
> > | As someone who is more of a user, I'd think that if I give any 
> > options | they would override the defaults, and it would be hard for 
> > me to debug if | there were other default options that took effect 
> > when I gave options.  If | you keep the default options when specific 
> > options are used, it would be | helpful to at least give a warning 
> > that the other options were used.
> >
> > I agree, I think that if options are supplied, the default options
> > should not be used.  Otherwise, I think we will have a lot of confused
> > users wondering why their files are compressed when they just
> > specified "-ascii".
>
> I am wondering if instead of this "2-dimensional option space"
> we would have just compressed options like that:
>
> -text
> -ztext
> -binary
> -zbinary
> ...
>
> Perhaps it is not as elegant as David's plan, but it looks more
> straightforward to me (and yes, supplied option override the
> default).


This way was discussed a couple of weeks ago, and would have been much 
less invasive to implement, at the code of a doubling of the number of 
file formats.... The advantage of the currect technique is that all of 
the options "-zip", "-append", etc can be made default options....

D.

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