[Nagiosplug-devel] Extra opts help text

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 15/04/10 11:24 PM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> On 15/04/10 04:17 AM, Ton Voon wrote:
>> On 13 Apr 2010, at 22:51, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> 
>>>>  --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?
>> Yes please. I'll do the N::P library and update SF's git repo.
> 
> I was thinking of doing them both but thanks! (I couldn't have released
> N::P without you anyway...)

So I was syncing the c plugins, and noticed your string:

>  --extra-opts=[section][@file]
>    Read options from an ini file. See http://nagiosplugins.org/extra-opts for usage

Exceeds the 80-character limit that we usually enforce on --help output.

Shall we split the line, or drop this "limit"?

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Thomas
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