[Po4a-devel]Usage and help messages

[martin.quinson@loria.fr]

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:40:05PM +0100, Danilo Piazzalunga wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> Currently, the po4a utilities print only a terse help message when invoke=
d=20
> with --help, while they print out the full help text when invoked with th=
e=20
> wrong number of parameters or when GetOptions fails.

Ups, good catch.

> I guess this should be the other way around, that is:
>=20
>  * No parameters/wrong number of parameters: terse message only
>  * With --help: full help text
>  * With a wrong option, e.g. --foobar: still full help text
>=20
> FYI, I attached the patch to change this behaviour.

I'd prefer you to use the more complete syntax of Pod::Usage (see its
manpage). What is important to me is that po4a --help returns the code 0 and
that scripts return non-nul on error.

For the verbosity, you are fully right.


Thanks, Mt.

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