I'd favor not showing usage - they make a mistake, they should read the man or 
run it without options to see where they screwed up :)


On Tuesday 17 May 2005 02:59 am, antoine.raillon@... wrote:
> Sorry i didn't had enough free time to made all my tests :/
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> however I extensively tested the "user - overlays - no rights" case, and
> everything runs fine, with or without pre-cached ~/.cpan
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> btw, thinking about a small visual detail : when user makes an error, he's
> prompted with 1/ an error message and 2/ exit_usage(). But exit_usage() is
> now quite long and often hides the error message (at least in my terms ;p).
> Would it be a good thing to have an exit_short() or to avoid calling
> exist_usage() in such case ?
>
> --
> cab
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> Install
> Search
> Upgrade
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> as user with overlay access
> user without overlay access
> root with overlays
> root without overlays
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> These are the tests I've done at various stages
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> On Monday 16 May 2005 09:55 am, antoine.raillon@... wrote:
> > > Last public release was 0.12 - I'd stick with 0.13 for now
> >
> > your word ;p
> > you're the one who will be blamed if anyting goes wrong anyway =)
> > (/me hides ;p)
> >
> > > I think its ready for testing - but then, that's what testing's for,
> >
> > right? :)
> >
> > and about a must-pass test list ?
> >
> > --
> > cab
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