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From: | Mike Swierczek |
Subject: | Guix command line flag consistency |
Date: | Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:57:09 -0400 |
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I hope this question isn't too elementary.I see that the 'guix package' command line tool, and possibly all of the Guix command line tools, use the Scheme SRFI 37 convention for argument handling. It seems a little unintuitive to me as an outsider trying to learn Guix. I wrote 'guix package --search git' and got an error message.
I'd much prefer if both the short and long command line arguments accepted their argument in any arrangement.
--long-flag=foo --long-flag foo --long-flagfoo -short-flag=foo -short-flag foo -short-flagfooObviously this is a headache for the persons writing the command line parser. But I think it's more friendly to people new to the project. What do you think?
-Mike
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