Why do-ffixed-line-length and -free... use - instead of =?

Thomas Koenig Thomas.Koenig@online.de
Tue Nov 7 19:10:00 GMT 2006


On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:52:40PM -0800, Brooks Moses wrote:

> If there's no particular reason why it's this way, I propose changing 
> the current syntax to an undocumented option, and adding a new 
> (documented) form of the option that uses an "=".  That way, we're not 
> gratuitously breaking any makefiles that use the current form, but we 
> can still document it only in the form that's consistent with everything 
> else.
 
> Comments?  I'll write up a patch, if this seems like a good idea.

Go for it!

Hmm... does anybody think adding a "deprecated options" section
to the manual is a good idea?

	Thomas



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