On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 10:11:36AM -0400, Samuel Lijin wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 6:24 AM, David Aguilar <dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Meld 3.16.0 requires a "=" in the --output argument, as it uses > > a simple hand-rolled command-line parser. > > > > Newer versions of Meld (3.16.4, and possibly earlier) use > > optpaarse, which accepts either "--output <file>" or > > "--output=<file>".
Junio, there's an optpaarse -> optparse typo in the commit message here in case you want to fix that up. > > Do older versions also support both? No. When the "--output" option was first added (3.16.0, or possibly earlier) it used the simpler parser that does not undertand the "--output <filename>" form. Much older versions didn't support "--output" at all, so we don't have to worry about them since we already use the "--output" flag selectively based on whether or not it's supported. -- David
