[Mono-list] Bug in command-line handling of mcs.exe

[Adam Treat]

Maybe this is a good point to build that 'GetOpts' library or tool that you 
were talking about.  Shouldn't be terribly difficult.

Adam

On Thursday 21 February 2002 07:48 am, you wrote:
> > The command "mcs.exe -?" behaves as expected, "mcs.exe /?" raises an
> > ArgumentException ("Second path fragment must not be a drive or UNC
> > name"). B.t.w, my claim is not that "/?" should behave like "-?", but an
> > exception is the other extreme :-)
>
> I have added a hack for now, so that /? and /help and /h will do what
> you expect them to, but this is a short term solution.  The long term
> solution needs to explore the following:
>
> 	* Make our command line arguments Microsoft-compatible.
>
> 	* Allow for both --option or /option.
>
> 	* Auto-detect the OS, and use the command line options
> 	  accordingly (not a good idea, because then makefiles are
> 	  not "portable").
>
> 	* Always handle /option like --option, and have a special
> 	  /quote to "quote" the next option as a filename, so
> 	  if you really wanted to compile /? (which btw, right now
> 	  we refuse to, because it has to end in .cs), then you would
> 	  use:
> 		mcs /quote /?
>
> Miguel
>
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