On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 03:25:53AM +0100, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > In the past didn't we try to keep our external > requirements to a minimum? I'm starting to be > concerned that we may requiring too many libraries > and that some of them may not be properly XP.
I think that on all systems besides Windows, popt is the correct library to use for commandline parsing (which really, really sucks right now.) Plus, gnome uses popt already. It may or may not be the case that we want to avoid using popt on Windows. Windows apps still do take command-line arguments, but they're slightly different from command-line arguments on other platforms (which do mostly seem similar). One thing I've thought of is a preprocessing phase on the commandline before we let popt at it. Not sure yet. > This is what I mean by "properly XP". The Windows > equivalent to a lot of command-line options might > sometimes be the context menu... I couldn't understand this sentence. pat
