[Koha-devel] Coding guidelines for command-line scripts

[Owen Leonard]

We have the beginnings of some coding guidelines for command-line
scripts, but it doesn't look like they are firm:

http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Coding_Guidelines#Command-line_argument_conventions

I was testing Bug 8674, "Need a delete biblios script"
(http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8674), and
was frustrated that there was no help option, but was unsure whether
that should block the script from getting a signoff.

Would everyone agree that new command-line scripts must accept
"--help" (and include relevant help, of course) ?

Should it also be the standard that command-line scripts should not
perform any action unless an argument is passed?

Anything else?

 -- Owen

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