Re: exit status

On 21 June 2003, David Goodger said:
> Greg Ward wrote:
> >Oh crap, you're right.  OK, I'm back to my old stance: change it to
> >exit(2) if you want, I don't care either way.
> >
> >Hmmmm: shouldn't the usage go to stderr if it results from an error?
> 
> Yes, it should.  The docstring said so.  Fixed in CVS.

Actually, your checkin prompted me to check the code and test it.  Optik
*was* sending the usage message to stderr already!  So I reverted part
of your patch to keep OptionParser.error() using the print_usage()
method.  Works fer me.

        Greg
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