Philip Yarra wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:58 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I don't think we are going to accept annoying our users on every
> > compile.
>
> Wouldn't people generally be using Makefiles or similar?
> ECPG_FLAGS = -t -f
> would do the trick. i can't imagine many people would seriously be typing
> "ecpg -t test.pgc && cc -I/usr/local/pgsql/include -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib
> -pthread -lecpg -o test test.c" and baulk at an extra -f flag!
>
> Having to specify a couple of flags for the desired behaviour is not uncommon
> - Sybase's cpre is unbelievably verbose unless told otherwise. We just put
> the "--shut-up" flags in the Makefile. Point is, we read the manual to find
> out what the flags meant.
That has never been our style, and I don't think we want to start now.
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