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

[Alexander Strasser]

D Richard Felker III wrote ( On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:08:56AM -0400 ):
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:48:54AM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> > D Richard Felker III wrote ( On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:58:41PM -0400 ):
> > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:00:57PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > imo this functionality is not needed. mplayer does not use gnu options
> > > to begin with, so why should it be "gnu compliant"? -version would
> > > make sense tho...
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> > 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.

Hey read closer, I said I thought it is the reason why there is no _-_version
where did you get the other `-' from?

But as Diego said there is a `--'-option in MPlayer called --help though it
is a small hack but maybe ok given the fact that at least -help is there too ...

  Alex (beastd)