From: martin f krafft Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:11:00 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow help/--help/-h to be run outside of a TopGit repo Message-ID: <20081120151100.GA2354@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> In-Reply-To: <20081120150832.GI10491@machine.or.cz> also sprach Petr Baudis [2008.11.20.1608 +0100]: > What is that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter In the context of our discussion, it basically means that if should_do_help calls do_help, then we cannot test should_do_help independently (without mocking out do_help, which is plain ugly). Not that we have a testing infrastructure (yet) anyway, but... > > True, but then we are parsing command lines. Would you be opposed to > > a getopt (POSIX) approach to normalising/parsing the command line? > > No. :-) Good. I will see what I can do about this. In the mean time, I will just leave things as they are. -- .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems windoze nt crashed. i am the blue screen of death. no one hears your screams.