[Nagiosplug-devel] Extra opts help text

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 13/04/10 01:14 PM, Ton Voon wrote:
> Hi!

Hi Ton,

Nice to see you!

> I wanted to get some opinions about the --extra-opts help text. In the  
> C code it reads (with typo):
> 
> --extra-opts=[section][@file]
>    Read additionnal options from ini file
> 
> [further down between notes and example]
> 
> See: http://nagiosplugins.org/extra-opts for --extra-opts usage and  
> examples
> 
> 
> However, the Nagios::Plugin library says:
> 
>   --extra-opts=[<section>[@<config_file>]]
>     Section and/or config_file from which to load extra options (may  
> repeat)
> 
> Note a difference in syntax. I'd like to harmonise these and make it  
> more readable.
> 
> A colleague says that "additional options" or "extra opts" suggests  
> there are other options not available through the command line. I  
> don't want to change the parameter, but I propose that the text be  
> changed to:
> 
>   --extra-opts=[section][@file]
>     Read options from an ini file. See http://nagiosplugins.org/extra-opts 
>   for usage
> 
> For both libraries.
> 
> Any objections?

I fully agree. I can do it as I have a few other things to work on in
Nagios-plugins...

So I will remove the notes text as well, correct?

- --
Thomas
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