<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:02 AM, John Veness <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:John.Veness.mythtv@pelago.org.uk" target="_blank">John.Veness.mythtv@pelago.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
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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".<br>
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I have raised a ticket (<a href="http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10722" target="_blank">http://code.mythtv.org/trac/<u></u>ticket/1I would be okay with that. 0722</a>) and started a small discussion on mythtv-dev (<a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/517539" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.<u></u>com/lists/mythtv/dev/517539</a>) about this, but it seems that this won't be fixed by the developers.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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What do other users think?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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John<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br>Consistency wins, in my book. If the preferred method for passing arguments is to use the long-form (--lock vs -l), and this is being done across the board, I'm for it.<br><br>
User scripts and web pages can be easily updated. Muscle memory, that won't win me over. After a few times of typing it out, you'll forget about it.<br><br><a href="https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/87eb63">https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/87eb63</a>.<br>