Explain why "print usage" and "configure from command line" aren't combined

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Ten Simple Rules for Making Research Software More Robust. Manuscript is published at PLoS Computational Biology. Feedback is welcome!

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005412

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Explain why "print usage" and "configure from command line" aren't combined #30

Closed gvwilson closed 7 years ago

gvwilson commented 7 years ago

Reviewer 1 suggested combining 2 and 8 ("print usage" and "configure everything from the command line"). We should explain somewhere that these serve different purposes.