[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope - z2.py:1.62

[Toby Dickenson]

>I suppose it could be considered my
>personal preference, but I'd like to see consistency.

Consistency can be nice, but in this case I dont see it. We already have some 
things controlled by environment variables, some by 
INSTANCE_HOME/magic_name.py scripts, and now something uses a long option 
too.

I can see the argument being different if this was a switch that everyone 
would use sooner or later, but ICP seems likely to remain a minority interest.

>  We could support
>both, as many GNU utilities do,

Indeed. Half serious proposal:  What about if we added new long option that 
shadow all the current short ones? I would be happy to type those extra 
characters on the rare occasions where I write a new start script, in 
exchange for the extra readability on the many times I read a old one.

> so as not to break current --icp users.

There arent very many of them at the moment, so I think we can debate this 
principal without worrying about that kind of practicality

>  Short options support clustering, which is nice to have.

Not if the option requires a parameter, which this one does.