Of course -- we have to make sure we ping Docs if we add shortnames.
On 4/30/2011 4:01 PM, Byron Nevins wrote:
> I think we are underusing the short option names.
>
> E.g.:
>
> asadmin start-domain --debug
> is the same as
> asadmin start-domain -d
>
> I think we ought to go back and add lots and lots of these handy
> one-letter abbreviations. I don't see any down side to them. I see 2
> reasons why they are so rare in V3, in order of importance (IMO)
>
> (1) I don't know how to do that!
> Bill made this very easy. Here is how start-domain does it:
> @Param(optional = true, *shortName = "d"*, defaultValue = "false")
> -- So now you /*DO */know how to do that!
>
> (2) In V2 the commands and abbreviations were globally scoped so we
> had to be penurious with one-letter abbreviations. Now the name-space
> is at a command granularity. So we can use them much more
> frequently. E.g. we can have a dozen commands define "-d" to be
> totally different things without any clashing like in V2.
>
> Users will like this and it is trivial to go back and add them to
> existing commands.
>
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