Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qemu-doc: Rework the network options chapter to make "-net" less prominent

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 17/04/2018 16:05, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> For what it's worth, my "[RFC PATCH 00/32] Command line QAPIfication"
>> replaces the original parsing art by getopt_long_only().
>>
>> Completing that work will take some time, but once it's done, we can
>> (and I think we should) prefer double-dash for consistency.
> Since our existing parser accepts single & double-dash already, is it
> worth explicitly deprecating single-dash usage right now. So that when
> your code comes along ready to merge, we're already able to say
> "i told you so" and drop single-dash support at that same time.

Serious questions: is _anyone_ of you actually using double-dash support
in daily invocations of QEMU?

Paolo