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Dennis E. Hamilton commented on COR-26:
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The TL;DR: I want to spend a bit more time in analysis rather than just diving
in. I see no reason to hurry. I anticipate there being many more utilities
and tools as we dig into handling of various formats at scale.
More thoughts:
apr_getopt_long (the desired one) requires an initialization also. It seems to
be pretty low level, so there is a fair amount of intricacy to using it as well
as I can tell.
I'm not going to just grab it off the shelf until I understand how I would use
it more than once and how I would maintain that use.
Also, what APR does is build a library, static or dynamic, and that is then
used. The static one would, ideally, only deliver the necessary code and what
it depends on for a given platform.
If we extract just the source code that we need, I have no idea how involved
that will be, and what the platform dependencies might also involve. The thing
about APR is that it builds for different platforms and has the same API across
all of them.
> Recommend standard getopt_longs for the utilities
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>
> Key: COR-26
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COR-26
> Project: Corinthia
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Consumers - dftest
> Reporter: Dennis E. Hamilton
> Assignee: Dennis E. Hamilton
> Fix For: 0.5
>
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> It is recommended that the command-line utilities provided by Corinthia use a
> common getopt model with single-letter options, verbose word options and
> common shared options (--version, --help, etc.). stdin, stdout, and stderr
> should be redirectable (via the shell) and the utilities should work with
> pipes (with appropriate encoding caveats).
> The same flavors can be used for all platforms, with filenames given in
> platform-specific form (and "..." where needed) but parameters and options
> the same across platforms.
> The GNU getopt_long approach is widely-used.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getopt
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