[mythtv-users] mythshutdown -l in 0.25

[John Veness]

Hi,

With the upgrade to 0.25, "mythshutdown -l", to prevent the machine from 
shutting down, no longer works. You have to type the full "mythshutdown 
--lock" instead. "mythshutdown -u" still works as an alias for 
"mythshutdown --unlock".

I have raised a ticket (http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10722) and 
started a small discussion on mythtv-dev 
(http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/517539) about this, 
but it seems that this won't be fixed by the developers.

I was wondering what other users thought of this change, and if anyone 
else, like me, thinks this is a negative change. Probably best to 
discuss it here on the users list rather than on the dev list, and it 
certainly should *not* be discussed on the trac ticket.

The dev's argument for the change is to have consistency between all 
myth commands. For other myth commands "-l" is an alias for "--logfile", 
which is now deprecated, so "-l" brings up a warning instead of 
performing the action.

My argument is that, for mythshutdown specifically, it never used -l for 
--logfile, it was always for --lock. Muscle memory, user-written 
scripts, and web pages which refer to "mythshutdown -l", would need to 
be changed, for (what I think is) no good reason.

What do other users think?

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T