gjospin/PhyloSift — Issue #87: need consistent descriptions of program options
Author: koadman
Created: 2012-02-26 12:42:03+00:00
State: open

program options can be long, e.g. `--help`, or short form e.g. `-h`. Our option parser also supports single - long options, e.g. `-help`, but I suggest we avoid these since GNU convention seems to always be --, and using single dash for long options is overloaded with strings of short options. For example `tar -xvf blahblah.tar.gz` is a synonym for `tar -x -v -f blahblah.tar.gz`, but `phylosift -help` is not a synonym for `phylosift -h -e -l -p`!