I have to agree that these slightly often changes in the command line options are confusing for the users and not really obvious what purpose they serve (another example was the removal of the passwd option).

I agree that are minor things, but a consistency on the command line interface would have been desirable, or at least keep backwards compatibility.

that's just my thoughts.

lefteris

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Stefan de Konink <stefan@konink.de> wrote:
On 01/04/13 12:58, Stefan Manegold wrote:
> Changes are documented --- cf. `mserver5 --help`, `man mserver5`,
> `cat monetdb5/ChangeLog.Feb2013` --- and we expect that users
> upgrading to a new feature release do read release notes (incl.
> change logs) and can update their systems around MonetDB
> accordingly.


Usage: ./mserver5 [options] [scripts]
    --dbpath=<directory>      Specify database location

vs

Usage: /opt/monetdb-augustus/bin/mserver5 [options] [scripts]
    --dbname=<database_name>  Specify database name
    --dbfarm=<directory>      Specify database location


It would have been nice if the dbname and or dbfarm options were used,
the user was proactively informed about the deprecation. I don't see why
all in a rush a commandline argument had to be changed -- what does it fix?

Also the commit message is wrong (dbpath => dbfarm):
<http://dev.monetdb.org/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=6ce49316d14f>


Stefan
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