Re: cvs commit: apache-1.3/htdocs/manual invoking.html

[Martin Kraemer <Ma...@mch.sni.de>]

rse@hyperreal.org wrote,...
>   Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show the usage list
>   but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid command. OTOH a lot of
>   users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and instead are annoyed for ages
>   by our huge unreadable list of directives.  So we now changed the command line
>   options this way:
>   
>    1. `-L' => `-R'
>    2. `-h' => `-L'
>    3. `-?' => `-h'

I expect that this change will result in a roaring protest by long-term
apache users. Incompatible changes like these (albeit justified)
can mean the loss of many happy customers. Wasn't there a way
for a more defensive "compatible" approach (like, adding '?' to
the getopt() option string)?

    Martin
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