See attached patch. This will be in the 1.15 release. -Allen
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Allen, > > The bug report is now almost a month old. I have not heard a peep from you > about it (and not even over beers the following week :). Also, getopt has > seen no release in two years. > > What is the plan? I know how hard it is as we all are too busy -- but I > don't want this to rod. > > Shall we gently retire getopt? > > Or shall we mark it as 'valid bug, but design flaw and will not get fixed' > and _document it_ and move on? What does GNU getopt do about negative values > in short options? What about long options? > > It was good to have a beer in LA though. Steffen and I will try the same > here in Chicago in a few weeks... > > -- > Regards, Dirk >
getopt_1.14-negative_number.patch
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