[FFmpeg-cvslog] r20822 - in trunk: ffmpeg.c ffplay.c

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 05:36:54PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Sunday 2009-12-13 16:33:43 +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 04:15:16PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > On date Sunday 2009-12-13 14:49:14 +0100, michael wrote:
> > > > Author: michael
> > > > Date: Sun Dec 13 14:49:14 2009
> > > > New Revision: 20822
> > > > 
> > > > Log:
> > > > Show help if no cmd line options are provided at all.
> > > > This safes the users time to find out which of -h --help -? works.
> > > 
> > > I consider this a bad UI policy, a program should show help only when
> > > it is explicitely requested to do so, that's generating a lot of
> > > output when the only message displayed should be: "ehy you need to
> > > specify a file".
> > 
> > i dont agree, maybe it could be abbreviated but just what you suggest
> > is not usefull. Any user alraedy knows he has to specify a file
> 
> Thinking twice at it this is not true, consider -version.
> 
> So a better behavior would be:
> 
> $ ffmpeg
> No arguments specified. Use the -h option for showing the inline help message.
> 
> This is both more correct and less obstrusive.
> 
> Well I know that many CLI programs implement this behavior (no
> arguments -> show help), but I always found that weird and subtlely
> wrong, as this is doing the program to act in a way which wasn't
> explicitely requested, I'd prefer to simply *suggest* to the user what
> she may want to do rather than making the program act like that.

ive no strong oppinon on this, if people want it changed iam not against
it but the way it was before was really bad, even i at least once tried
./ffmpeg --help
and what plain ./ffmpeg outputed was just useless, it could have said
"sorry pal, try again" that would have been none the worse

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