[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] standard gnu "obligatory" arguments

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sat Oct 30 17:44:18 CEST 2004


D Richard Felker III writes:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:48:54AM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> > I always thought mplayer had no -version option cause it prints the version
> > on every invocation. But I think such an option would still be good as
> 
> i don't know if this is the reason or not. but...i do know the reason
> it has no --version option, and that's that mplayer does not use "--"
> options at all.

That's not true, --help works.  And yes, I think --version is a good idea.

Diego




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