msi: Tweak msiexec's usage message.

Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr
Fri May 4 08:21:38 CDT 2012


On Fri, 4 May 2012, Julian Rüger wrote:

> Hi Francois and wine-devel,
> 
> while we're at it, shouldn't these
> 
> >"Advertise a product:\n"
> >"\t/j[u|m] package [/t transform] [/g languageid]\n"
> >"Apply a patch:\n"
> >"\t/p patch_package [property]\n"
> >"\t/p patch_package /a package [property]\n"
> 
> also be put in curly brackets?
> 
> Like this:
> 
> \t/j[u|m] {package} [/t transform] ...
> \t/p {patch_package} [property]\n
> ...

My understanding is that for msiexec the curly brackets are only used to 
enclose cases where there is two or more alternatives: {a|b|c}. With 
{required parameter} being an exception to the rule, maybe because it in 
fact represents a list.

It would be nice if all of Wine's tools used the same conventions for 
the usage messages.


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