Issue 14804 - --help does not work
Summary: --help does not work
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO Later
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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URL: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_18....
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Reported: 2003-05-23 18:08 UTC by dankegel
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:14 UTC (History)
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Description dankegel 2003-05-23 18:08:48 UTC 
See issue 11950.

The open source community has come to expect all programs to follow
the Gnu project's standard commandline arguments --help and --version.
This is true on all platforms that support a commandline, e.g. Linux,
Windows, and MacOSX.

Running soffice or the setup utility with argument --help should display 
the same message as running it with argument -help (single dash).

Running soffice or the setup utility with argument --version should display
the software's version and build (i.e. the same info currently shown on
the first line of the output of -help for soffice).

This should be pretty trivial to fix, so I'm marking it as a defect.
IMHO it should be resolved for ooo1.1rc1.
Comment 1 dankegel 2003-05-23 18:09:34 UTC 
Setting target milestone (doesn't hurt to ask :-)
Comment 2 dankegel 2003-05-23 18:14:21 UTC 
See also issue 2557
Comment 3 thorsten.martens 2003-05-26 14:05:57 UTC 
TM->LO: Please have a look !
Comment 4 lo 2003-05-26 14:38:17 UTC 
This is a request that is voiced often among folks with a strong GNU
background.
OpenOffice has been following the x-toolkit style of command line
options (-display :0.1 -foo -bar param...) and -h/-help are no
exception to this rule.
However, I am also aware of the fact that the current command-line
handling and syntax is somewhat lacking behind and should be changed
to a more modern behavior - this however can not be achived by
changing random options around. I would like to encourage everyone who
is interested in seeing a change in the way the commandline works to
have a look at what the commandline is currently supporting and come
up with a concept/RFE that covers all options and not just the
personal 'pet-peeve'
Comment 5 lo 2003-05-27 14:38:29 UTC 
We should enhance the command line handling in the future since many
users would like to see the behaviour that they are familiar with.
However a consistent overall concept should be thought after and this
sould be implemented across all executables (soffice, setup, pkgcheck
etc...)
Comment 6 Mathias_Bauer 2004-10-21 17:26:00 UTC 
retargetted due to heavy workload
Comment 7 lo 2007-03-06 16:54:33 UTC 
handing over to fwk
Comment 8 carsten.driesner 2007-03-08 10:11:50 UTC 
cd: Accepted.