[magick-developers] long options as an option.

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:37:05 -0500
imagemagick.20.andromodon at spamgourmet.com wrote:

| Dear Developers,
| 
| First off, I'd like to say that I am a huge fan of Imagemagick.  It is
| so powerful.  Thank you all for your work on this great project!
| 
| There is one thing I might tweak with the utilities, though.  I've
| noticed that imagemagick seems to be one of the only programs that
| doesn't conform to the '--' for long options and '-' for short options
| convention. 

There are no short options!!!  So this is not a problem.

Image processing has too many highly varied operators to even try adding
short flags for things.  That is left for more specialized wrapping
programs and scripts, and a short option can make more sense. 

Not all operators even use '-' for example there is of "-read" operator
for the command line, you just give the image filename directly as the
"-read" operation.




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