Re: [jamboost] --help-options / --help-usage

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-08 10:11:16

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Andrey Melnikov wrote:
> 
>>Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>
>>>On Wednesday 06 July 2005 18:39, Rene Rivera wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>* --help; This help message.
>>>>* --help-project; Information on building for this project.
>>>>* --help-command; Command line syntax and available options.
>>>>* --help-doc; How to control the output of this help text.
>>>>* --help-internal; Boost.Build implementation details.
>>>
>>>Ok, this looks fine.
>>
>>Do we really need these "*" and ";" ? In all programs I've seen it would 
>>be just
>>
>> --help This help message.
>> --help-project Information on building for this project.
>> --help-command Command line syntax and available options.
>> --help-doc How to control the output of this help text.
>> --help-internal Boost.Build implementation details.
> 
> 
> Need is very relative in this case. The "*" are there because it is 
> trying to represent the equivalent HTML structure, of an unordered list, 
> which is what it constructs internally. And prints out as either text or 
> HTML. As for the alignment, it's not easy to do that in bjam so I'm not 
> sure it's worth the effort.

Can we just remove ; then? So users won't try "bjam --help-command;".

Andrey