Re: -Dants.debugFlags=ANTS_DANTE (etc.) is Evil (tm)

[Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@ISI.EDU>]

>> 	Hi.  In today's weekly ABOCC teleconference, we (the Activate
>> project at ISI and SRI) decided that the way that ANTS passes
>> command-line debugging flags is Evil (tm).
>> 
>> 	Do you think it would be reasonable to make
>> "edu.utah.janos.nodeos.Main" to take flags (perhaps woth the same
>> syntax,) to set the debug flags before calling its own target class?
>
>I don't have a problem with it...  How about:
>
>  -janos.debugFlags=NODEOS_BLAH  for edu.utah.janos.nodeos.Main
>
>  and
>
>  -ants.debugFlags=ANTS_BLAH for ants.core.ConfigurationManager


	Er, so if I wanted to set both, the ABoneShell command would
be something like this?

  pload J=http://bro.isi.edu/ANTS/ants2.0/~edu.utah.janos.nodeos.Main \
        T=${TYPE} D=T${TYPE} C=ANTS_2 R=err O=out V=${jdk} \
	S=-janos.debugFlags=NODEOS_BLAH \
        S=ants.core.ConfigurationManager \
	S=-ants.debugFlags=ANTS_BLAH \
	S=core.config S=${vaddr}


	  That's OK by me, although on second thought maybe:

  pload J=http://bro.isi.edu/ANTS/ants2.0/~edu.utah.janos.nodeos.Main \
        T=${TYPE} D=T${TYPE} C=ANTS_2 R=err O=out V=${jdk} \
	S=--debug=NODEOS_BLAH \
        S=ants.core.ConfigurationManager \
	S=--debug=ANTS_BLAH \
	S=core.config S=${vaddr}

would look a little more "normal" to the Unix hoi polloi.  Note also
that I used double-dashes for the Gnu-at-heart (in this case, also
known as the POSIXly enhanced).  Comments?

>I'd still like to keep the original method available too though,
>okie?

	Sure.  Leaving the original method in place doesn't cause a
security heartache for us, so long as we don't have to worry about
someone using it. :-)

					Craig Milo Rogers