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Add support for long options with double hyphen in dita command

See original GitHub issue

To follow the UNIX convention in command arguments, long option form should start with double hyphen. For backwards compatibility, the single hyphen form should be retained. After the change, the following commands are equivalent:

$ dita -install
$ dita --install

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:14 (14 by maintainers)

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jelovirtcommented, Jun 21, 2016

Should we also extend the CLI syntax so that you could set parameters directly with the long form? That is, the following would be equivalent

$ dita -Dfoo.bar=baz
$ dita --foo.bar=baz

The long form option would only be available for parameters configured in plugin configuration file; the -D form would allow non-configured parameters.

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jelovirtcommented, Jun 21, 2016

The backwards compatibility layer would need to be at Ant level, not CLI (dita command), because not all users use CLI.

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