Integrating them is best, as long as there's a -4 and -6 option to allow
people to force one or the other.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> All inetutils programs are now using argp to parse their arguments.
> The only thing that remains is libls, but it understands only short
> options and is not supposed to produce help output, so argp would be
> useless here anyway.
>
> Question: do we really need to have ping and ping6 as separate programs?
> Would it not be cleaner to merge the two into a single utility?
>
> Regards,
> Sergey
>
>
>


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