From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup 2.887 release candidate - please test
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <382d1911-72d5-f584-7cfb-a29bc12aa02a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c6822bc0-071a-aed8-714c-d102aa36fe8b@redhat.com>
On 08/02/2018 15:01, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/08/2018 12:44 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
>>
>> The current "-h" output is missing a header with a description
>> of program name an version.
>>
>> Â Â $ ./setup-2.887.x86.exe --help |head
>
> Generally, if you want to learn the version, you should use --version,
> rather than --help. (Some programs also output the version in --help,
> but GNU Coding Standards don't require that, so it is not universal the
> way --version should be)
as `--version` is not provided at all, than your proposal
is a request of new feature
;-)
Nice to have anyway, and the same output should be the reused
as early line of `--help` that is currently very anonymous...
Regards
Marco
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-06 15:05 Jon Turney
2018-02-07 0:49 ` Steven Penny
2018-02-07 11:38 ` David Balažic
2018-02-07 11:51 ` Jon Turney
2018-02-20 12:42 ` Jon Turney
2018-02-08 1:16 ` Steven Penny
2018-02-08 6:45 ` Marco Atzeri
2018-02-08 14:01 ` Eric Blake
2018-02-08 15:17 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
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