Re: [gnugo-devel] bug: --help text printed to stderr

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Simon D Howard wrote:
> Using gnugo version 3.4 (the version in debian/unstable), I noticed a bug 
> in GNU go. Running gnugo --help, the help text is printed to stderr rather 
> than stdout. The GNU coding standards say that help text should be printed 
> to stdout:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_18.html
> 
> Printing help text to stderr is annoying as it is not possible to pipe the 
> output through a pager like 'more'. Also it is conceptually wrong from the 
> start, as if you are providing the 'help' option to the program, the help 
> page is its correct output - it is not an error.
> 
> I would be very grateful if you could fix this problem.

This has been fixed recently in some 3.5.x version.  Thanks for the report
anyway.

Paul