Re: [Logwatch] Fwd: Default to STDOUT: is it really a good thing?

Willi Mann wrote:
>> Funny I was actually thinking about doing something like that based on 
>> Bjorn's comments. [ZTo justify keeping --encode as an option]
>>
>> I was thinking --encode base64 [default], zip where base64 is default 
>> isf--encode is used, so --encode or --encode base64 are both valid and 
>> --encode zip,etc for other types of encoding. With out the --encode 
>> option None is the default.
>>
>> Is that too confusing?
> 
> So you want --encode to be the same as --encode base64?
> 
> I don't think it's a good idea to have more than one way to get the same
> thing, as the only advantage I see is 7 chars less to type.
> 
> And --encode base64 is self-explaining, while --encode is not.
> 
> Willi
> 
> 

Mostly I thought it would keep backwards compatibility, but maybe this 
is the time not to worry about such things. Clean break.

-Mike