change in registration options

[Dan Stromberg]

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:06, David Relson wrote:
> At 06:00 PM 2/27/03, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> >
> > > -u is already used and means update.  If '-u' is specified, after
> > > classifying a message as spam, bogofilter will add the words to the spam
> > > wordlist.  If the messag is not spam, bogofilter will update the goodlist.
> >
> >Ah, must have appeared in a more recent version of bogofilter than what
> >I'm running.
> 
> It's in 0.7.5 from last October...

Ok.  I haven't updated in a while.  I often don't update unless there's
a security problem or a pretty significant new feature.

> 
> > > '-U' has been suggested as a modifier to '-S' and '-N', so '-SU' would
> > > unregister spam and '-NU' would unregister ham.
> >
> >This sounds reasonable, but can it be made getopt without breaking
> >backward compatibility?
> 
> getopt doesn't care if they're together or separate, i.e. "-NU" is the same 
> as '-U -N'

But can it have an option that both takes an argument, and doesn't take
an argument?  IE, can "-N" mean something by itself, as well as "-NU"? 
In the getopt argument, you only have -N: and -N.

-- 
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu>

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