prolog vs prologue

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:53:47AM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
> 
> > > Which should it be, so that I can submit a patch to correct this?  Or
> > > is it too late to fix, given that it will break existing command
> > > lines?
> 
> > Can't you could keep the misspelled ones as undocumented options?
> 
> Perhaps, sure.  What is the convention for changing command line
> options?  Is a synonym option kept around for backward compatibility?
> If so, for how long?

Sigh.  I thought that we were discussing fixing the manual, not renaming
options.  As I said, the dictionaries I consulted showed "prolog" as a
variant spelling, and we should not be breaking existing scripts.  If
we want to make changes here then I think that we should support both
spellings indefinitely.