Re: Swap 'v'|'V' options for editcap and mergecap

[chuck c <bubbasnmp () gmail com>]

#15483 - Longest journey, first steps...
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/4611

I was hoping to work towards (for -h and -v) something
like LONGOPT_CAPTURE_COMMON in
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/blob/master/capture_opts.h
and ws_log_print_usage() in
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/blob/master/wsutil/wslog.c.

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 9:12 PM Maynard, Christopher <
Christopher.Maynard () igt com> wrote:

> It would be nice if they were all documented too.  See also:
> https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/15483.
> - Chris
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> > From: Wireshark-dev <wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org> On Behalf
> > Of Gerald Combs
> > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2021 9:48 PM
> > To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev () wireshark org>;
> > chuck c <bubbasnmp () gmail com>
> > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Swap 'v'|'V' options for editcap and
> mergecap
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> > I'm not sure if we've ever swapped flags, but Wireshark's "-m" flag was
> > marked as deprecated prior to the 2.2 release (bcae998048) and removed
> > prior to 2.4 (37252634c4). I don't have any objections to doing something
> > similar for the "-v" and "-V" flags.
> >
> > On 10/16/21 11:35 AM, chuck c wrote:
> > > Is there any precedent for changing command line options after a
> program
> > has been in production for some time?
> > > Swapping "v" and "V" for editcap and mergecap would bring them in line
> > with the other binaries for calling show_version().
> > > And also align with the verbose option ('V') for tshark and tfshark.
> > > (little disruption depending on how many scripts exist that use these
> > commands)
> > > Another approach would be to drop "-v" for version and only support "--
> > version" as tcpdump does:
> > > https://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcpdump.1.html
> > <https://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcpdump.1.html>
> > > (big disruption since it's muscle memory to have Q&A people run
> > "wireshark -v" and paste the output)
> > > https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/2489/
> > <https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/2489/>
> > > Add command-line argument to request the version to a number of the
> > utilities.
> > > https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/3773a756
> > <https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/3773a756>
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