[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make ff* recognize ------long-gnu-options

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Wed Dec 16 05:12:42 CET 2009


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:24:06AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Tuesday 2009-12-15 00:51:31 +0100, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> > On date Monday 2009-12-14 01:28:06 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 07:00:48PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > > Hi, I don't know if skipping an undeterminated number of '-' is a
> > > > misfeature but was easy to implement and I find it quite funny to run
> > > > ffmpeg ------------------help, we can reduce the number of skipped '-'
> > > > to 2 if requested.
> > > > 
> > > > Patches attached.
> > > 
> > > I agree that this is funny but i think it does little good ...
> > > it could confuse people and scripts could become dependant on it and then
> > > we cant even remove it wihout pissing people off.
> > 
> > So what about to accept at least both -foo and --foo options?
> 
> Ping.

i still think it would confuse people, that said if people want it
iam not against it

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