Review request: 8003562: Provide a command-line tool to find static dependencies (original) (raw)

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Sat Dec 15 01:30:39 UTC 2012

On 12/14/2012 5:23 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

-classpath is the one inconsistent with others. We think that it would be better to live with "-classpath" as people are familiar with -classpath option.

Ah, I see. But then you should still use: 108 new Option(true, "-cp", "-classpath") { Additionally, why not providing both, the old + new syntax: 108 new Option(true, "-cp", "-classpath", "--classpath") { People are also still familiar with -version ! -Ulf I guess I am against inconsistent use of the GNU option pattern. It is bad enough that we have to have different tools with different standards, but if we're going to a more GNU like pattern, we should have a more consistent policy about how we mix these styles. Inconsistently adopting GNU style is in my opinion worse than not adopting it.

Having a second thought, it's a new tool and we need to learn its options anyway. I'd opt for consistency than familiarity and not to have mixture of Unix-style and GNU-style options. If no objection, I will change it to --classpath for the initial push.

Mandy

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