[open-cobol-list] RFC -Comments requested for cobc options

[Roger While]

I would like comments/suggestions or "don't do that! :-)" for the following :

The OpenCOBOL compiler "cobc" is a bit inconsistent in it's
operation.
eg.
cobc PROG.CBL
generates a main prog.
cobc -C PROG.CBL
generates C code but as a module.

What I suggest is :
a) Deprecate the "-fmain" and "-m" options
b) Install a "-x" option to force a main prog (executable) generation
c) Given (a) and (b), cobc without the "-x" option will
    generate a module.

We anyway want to promote the use of "cobcrun" for driving
the runtime.

This would bring OC very near to MF/ACU operation.

Roger