Yelling About Software

A rageblog about software in the style of Web 0.9

Can we all get on the same page with version/verbose flags?

2020-02-11

Every. Goddamn. TIME. I try to figure out the version of a tool I’m using or try to run it with verbose output, I pick the wrong flag. Between -v, -V, --version, --verbose, and the god-forsaken -version (looking at you Java), it seems to be evenly split across all packages based on my totally statistically significant sampling. GNU says that --version should ALWAYS output the current version, but we all know how much developers love standards.

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