[Spambayes] uniform command line treatment of database/pickle files?

[Tim Stone - Four Stones Expressions]

1/27/2003 11:50:24 AM, Richie Hindle <richie at entrian.com> wrote:

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>> Other than our convenience, I don't see any reason the different tools
>> should use different mechanisms to specify database or pickle files on the
>> command line.  Hammiefilter.py uses:
>> 
>>     -d DBFILE
>>         use database in DBFILE
>>     -D PICKLEFILE
>>         use pickle (instead of database) in PICKLEFILE
>> 
>> while pop3proxy.py uses:
>> 
>>     -p FILE : use the named database file
>>     -d      : the database is a DBM file rather than a pickle
>> 
>> I don't know if there are other ways the same information is spelled, but I
>> think it would be nice if a pass was made over the existing command line
>> arguments so that all command line tools use the same flags for the same
>> purpose.
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>I'm not attached to either version, so by all means change one of them.
>I'd guess that more people are using command-line switches with hammie than
>with pop3proxy, so it should probably be pop3proxy that changes (but I
>don't have the time myself).  I don't know of any other tools that have
>similar switches, but I haven't looked.

I'll change pop3proxy so that -d/-D work.  I don't think I can keep -p/-d 
alive in the process...  -TimS

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