I second the pleading. FSL currently does a great job of mimicking
all those inconsistencies in the unix world, but perhaps it would be
nicer for users if it stopped doing that and mimicked, say, GNU tools
instead, which are much more internally consistent.
Rolf
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 02:38:35PM +0000, Stephen Smith wrote:
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> Just like across all Unix tools you mean?
>
> :)
>
> On 2 Mar 2010, at 14:34, wolf zinke wrote:
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> Hi,
> I am really grateful for the FSL package and the great support. Thank
> you so much for providing it for free and also giving such a thorough
> support.
> However, nothing can't be perfect and there is always space for
> improvements. One aspect that I encounter pretty often when doing some
> scripting is a inconsistency of function arguments between different
> tools. I think this is most clear when comparing flirt and fnirt.
> While flirt uses the '-' convention with a space before the next
> argument, fnirt uses '--' with only '=' between the argument.
> Furthermore, some arguments seem to be named differently, eg 'nn' and
> 'nearestneighbour' for the interpolation method. I am currently
> writing a small wrapper script that switches between fnirt and flirt,
> and I need to build in some ad hoc correction routines that translate
> the arguments. It would be great, if such workarounds could be avoided
> by using the arguments in a consistent manner between the various
> tools.
> I guess that such inconsistencies are rare and a result of the
> development history, but whenever I encounter them they disturb my
> workflow quiet a bit :'( . So I just wanted to make this suggestion.
> Please don't feel offended, since I really do like working with the
> FSL tools.
> thanks,
> wolf
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