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List:       gnulib-bug
Subject:    Re: test-argp and clang's ASAN
From:       Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list <bug-gnulib () gnu ! org>
Date:       2023-12-08 20:54:11
Message-ID: 87msukl8jw.fsf () kaka ! sjd ! se
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Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Looking at many traditional GNU tools, it seems --help strings uses
>> lower-case so can we settle on that?
>
> From what I've seen, there are widely used programs in either camp.
> Picking some programs at random:
>
> Lowercase:
> as, cp, bash, bison, ldd, iconv, diff, xgettext, sudo, emacs, tar
>
> Capitalized:
> objdump, gcc, gcal, vim, localedef, modprobe

Indeed.  Maybe harmonizing this is not feasible or even useful use of
our time.  Some of the tools above aren't even using upper/lower
consistently.  It would be nice to recommend one approach going forward
though, and put that in the GNU Coding Standards.  While it seems there
are more tools using lower-case I would personally prefer to recommend
upper case and sentences with final '.'.  Few tools seems to use that,
though, only gcc and 'bash -c "help set"' that I could find, so
established practice argues against that...

/Simon

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