From: trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2009-09-25T09:19:32+09:00
Subject: Re: When to use $DEBUG and $VERBOSE



On Sep 23, 1:40 pm, Fabian Streitel <karottenre...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> well, setting $VERBOSE will also tamper with the display of warnings
> issued by ruby, so it depends if that is included in what you want to
> achieve
> with --verbose.
>
> In general, you could probably tie --debug to $DEBUG since to me that's
> a developer's switch.
>
> --verbose on the other hand sounds to me like it's intended for end users,
> so ruby warnings to them will probably only be confusing (e.g. the
> insecure directory warning)

Thanks. You're right. And that puts things into perspective for me.
Seems to me $VERBOSE would have been more aptly labeled $WARN --then
$VERBOSE would have been available for CLIs.

T.