On 25.02.2015 14:22, Philip Martin wrote:
> Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>
>> The single usage of the --strict option is arguably complete nonsense:
>> the default docstring, which isn't displayed *anywhere*, is 'use strict
>> semantics' and ... means nothing at all. In actual usage, --strict is
>> hardly mnemonic for not printing trailing newlines.
> --strict originally did more. r845498, in 1.0, shows that --strict
> originally stripped both the the path prefix and the newline. r872554,
> in 1.6, limited --strict to a single path at which point it just
> stripped newlines.
>
>> Given all that, I propose we deprecate --strict and conflate the actual
>> option value with --no-newline, like this (this is trunk, untested):
> That looks like a good solution.
r1662224
-- Brane
Received on 2015-02-25 15:27:49 CET