From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 34888 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2018 15:17:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 34848 invoked by uid 89); 8 Feb 2018 15:17:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=help.=c2, H*u:6.1, H*UA:6.1, learn?= X-HELO: mail-wm0-f50.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f50.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f50.google.com) (74.125.82.50) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:17:02 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f50.google.com with SMTP id 143so10086031wma.5 for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 07:17:01 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=qhbq2lxST7IUjFijPvKvZw2Gn2IrUjUwjyx9UgxXU0c=; b=WrrBgveSeC3Yi4UmMpGW8314ZnZh5X3bLQDaRxGMKAVUOWc/1/eXJO45ahUSRIliAK kEaRiL5/lJPUvqtebAmhZLRn9rokGgXocdHKI0y61vicHWg6YwVVqQ6A+gSODrxxMZC1 eYiBlEiJeV8XlDcK8DRs3FKDgkJ4B2p/UDTMzTzMaQIFxfRe7ptnxIDHcuM2snnVpeka bdTQGIrniscgIR0SfJrIA99Gcm0aRXs/7kblCYI0EDU7xGfLoE1u3DF2SaA3AFWam2RT K1Aa9vx9LeIWfZr1yreqsHtDHEq4n0na4z9JqlHXFlwwX8uZAFwC0nxyJUyp09LYhGl0 jOBQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APf1xPDUWL8KeL1XKCak09SaotHzlAsiT1JruZ3ECt2x9Q23SfmqHiH1 ocDXJOiodUX4w+UutYgEswhG7Q== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x226SDv8pA8mmJVu0gcN9vSY78sC4kN7548fERAnA9BvAY90q6uki1mzVzU22FgIp+r/sHIMT1Q== X-Received: by 10.28.38.133 with SMTP id m127mr1315791wmm.40.1518103020246; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 07:17:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.21.192.129] ([178.15.39.162]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id k37sm195481wrf.92.2018.02.08.07.16.59 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 08 Feb 2018 07:16:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: setup 2.887 release candidate - please test To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <535988c5-b45f-1326-7fad-fba453f1ef8b@dronecode.org.uk> <1cc32a8b-b6dc-d823-1864-3349553eb02a@gmail.com> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <382d1911-72d5-f584-7cfb-a29bc12aa02a@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:17:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-02/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 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. >> >>   $ ./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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple