option names

[Matthias Andree]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, David Relson wrote:

> At 11:10 AM 9/16/02, Adrian Otto wrote:
> >David,
> >
> >> I've been thinking about option names and list names.  In ESR's initial
> >> release, he had options 's' and 'n' for registering spam and
> >> non-spam.  Several releases later, he added 'S' and 'N' for moving words
> >> from one list to another.  'n' and 'N' were renamed to 'h' and 'H'.  Now
> >> Eric has added 'i' for ignore-lists.
> >
> >Actually I think the use of '-h' should be reserved for displaying a help
> >message. Although the word 'ham' is less confusing than 'non-spam'. Perhaps
> >'-g', '-b', and '-G', '-B' should be used for "good" and "bad" content
> >respectively. I think the use of ham is cute, but not enough to use '-h' 
> >up.
> 
> Adrian,
> 
> Now that 0.7.4 is out, do you think it's time to change the names of these 
> options?
> 
> Do you want to do it, or shall I?

I've not been asked, but if you want my vote: leave the options alone.

We've just cleaned up the mess the -n -> -h rename brought us, and if
you want something more readable, I might suggest using long options
(gnugetopt) in addition to what we have now. It's one more dependency
OTOH.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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