[Doc-SIG] Re: [Docutils-users] objections to renaming "--exit" option / "exit_level" setting?

[Beni Cherniavsky]

David Goodger wrote on 2004-05-31:

> Does anybody use the "exit_level" setting ("--exit" option)?I'm
> thinking of changing the names to better reflect the function.
>  From docs/config.txt:
>
> """
> exit_level
>    A system message level threshold; non-halting system messages at
>    or above this level will produce a non-zero exit status at normal
>    exit.  Exit status is the maximum system message level plus 10 (11
>    for INFO, etc.).
>
>    Default: disabled (5).  Options: ``--exit``.
> """
>
> I think the option originally suggested by Beni Cherniavsky,
> "--exit-status", is better.I'd also change the setting to
> "exit_status_level".I'm sending this message to gauge the impact;
> will this break a lot of people's systems?
>
I'm +1 (unsurprisingly ;-).  I was just about to suggest a name change
when reading the thread where Felix misunderstood the meaning of it...

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Beni Cherniavsky <cben at users.sf.net>