Re: [avrdude-dev] [RFC] New usage text

[eric]

Brian Dean wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:07:37PM -0700, eric wrote:
>
> > This doesn't make sense to me. As I understand it, stderr is for stuff
> > like error messages. I would think that usage text is not an error
>
> But it is usually only printed out due to an error - command line
> misuse or no arguments supplied.  I agree with Joerg that it should go
> to stderr.
>

What about avrdude -?
That prints out the usage and it's not an error condition.

And there are a lot of counter examples, such as gcc --help which prints to
stdout and not to stderr. Other GNU programs do the same thing.

But if you want it, I'll change it back on Monday unless somebody else wants
to do it over the weekend.

Eric