[stellation-res] Location option

["Jonathan Gossage" <jgossage@xxxxxxxx>]

I have some conceptual problems with the CLI "location" option. I find the
syntax is arbitrary and somewhat painful. It forces order dependencies in
the constituent parts and depending on the target the order of the parts
changes. It is also a little ugly to parse in code.

I would like to suggest that this option be replaced by a set of options,
one for each of the parts. Thus you would wind up
with --host, --port, --protocol and --dbname options. Since in most cases
only one of these options needs to be specified, (the defaults are
sensible), the user interface is simplified.

If there is consensus on this proposal, I would implement this as part of
the work I am doing on Firebird.

Regards

Jonathan

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