[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] -msgl option

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 06:20:26AM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:40:02PM -0300, Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:57:46PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> > > New -msglevel option, let's you set manually the MSGL for EVERY MSGT.
> > > There's also an additional 'all' which obviously sets all msgt's, and does 
> > > not override any others.
> > > Usage:
> > > -msglevel all=-1:cplayer=5:demuxer=9
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Oded
> > 
> > IMHO there should be only one command flag to select desired
> > level of (range / upper limit / lower limit) messages to
> > be displayed, having 3 (-v/-quiet/-msglevel) even if they correctly 
> > interoperate with each other is a mess.
> 
> I dunno, I consider them sort of "convinience" aliases. -quiet is a VERY 
> old option, there's no way we're removing it, and -v is just an alias to 
> -msglevel all. But either way, do you have a solution? Do you propose to 
> delete these options?.. Or something else?

-v is NOT an alias to -msglevel all unless you broke it!! 
-v INCREMENTS verbosity level. It does not take any argument.
Any patch that changes behavior so fundamentally will be rejected.

Rich