[rrd-developers] [PATCH] rrd_dump and XML schema definition

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:40:37AM -0700, tlindenmann wrote:
>    - change the argument "[--no-header|-n]" to [--header|-h {xsd,dtd}]
> (default "no header output")

Hrm ... this breaks backwards compatibility of the user interface and it
changes the current default behavior. I'd rather suggest to do the
following:

 - keep the --no-header|-n option
 - create a DTD header by default
 - use --header|-h to change that default
 - complain if both, -n and -h are used

This should preserve the old behavior, thus not breaking possibly
existing scripts and you may _explicitly_ specify whether to create or
not to create a header, which imho is a much nicer interface.

Comments?

Cheers,
Sebastian

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