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bug#40549: More usability issues:
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Tom Zander |
Subject: |
bug#40549: More usability issues: |
Date: |
Tue, 12 May 2020 11:54:29 +0200 |
On dinsdag 12 mei 2020 10:51:28 CEST Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Nothing new here, and everything is properly documented.
The bugreport was not about a disconnect between documentation and the tool,
the bugreport is a usability bug which stems from the fact that the command
line parser behaves differently from every single other commandline parser
average people like me have ever used.
A near 100% of the command line tools on your Gnu/Linux box will behave
differently than guix does now.
C apps using libc, python apps using their parser, even C++ apps using the Qt
commandline classes, all are generally compatible with regards to behavior.
Only Guix is different.
> However (srfi srfi-37) does it as we see it now. Fixing it would mean
> implementing a different option parser.
Then fix that parser. It is inconsistent with the rest of the world and as long
as it is end-user-facing this inconsistency is a usability bug. A rather
massive one, I might say as this is about as core to the user-interaction of
the platform as it can get.
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Tom Zander
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