[swift-build-dev] Package Manager command line option clean-up

[Daniel Dunbar]

> On May 26, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Rob Allen via swift-build-dev <swift-build-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 26 May 2016, at 18:44, Anders Bertelrud <anders at apple.com <mailto:anders at apple.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2016-05-26, at 00.43, Rob Allen <rob at akrabat.com <mailto:rob at akrabat.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Looks nice and consistent to me. I like it.
>> 
>> Great!
>> 
>>> It seems like `-vv` is not documented though or has it been removed?
>> 
>> It’s been removed, since:
>> 
>> a) it is non-standard, and
>> b) it can be easily achieved using -v -v
>> 
>> I didn’t change the behavior that each occurrence of -v increments the verbosity level.
> 
> Works for me.
> 
>>> Also, it seems slightly strange that there's not a long-form name for test's `-s` option.
>> 
>> That’s a good point.  “specifier” would be the obvious suggestion for a long-form name.  Does that sound good to you?
> 
> Personally, I'm not a fan of the word "specifier to mean a single test class/method, and would have picked --case/-c or --test/-t given the choice. 
> 
> However, given that the recently chosen short form is -s and the title of that section is "SPECIFIER", then --specifier is nicely consistent.

+1 for specifier, for now.

We have some work in flight to allow moving to a more flexible syntax for this, eventually (but we need XCTest discovery to land first).

 - Daniel

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rob...
> 
> 
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