Hi Lorenzo, On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 01:06:41PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > yes, I think that it all should be backward compatible, even at the > cost of adding new stuff...
Yes, this would be ideal. But the only way to support the original interface as well as the new interface would be duplicate *almost all* of the strings in the generated output. Is this really what you want to do? It will also mean supporting both interfaces (along with their separate ways of generating strings -- runtime vs. generation-time) and the additional code complexity of providing them both. I had imagined that the API breakage that I was proposing might constitute a minor (or perhaps even major) version number increment. But do you feel that compatibility is more important than that? -- Tim Marston ed.am _______________________________________________ Help-gengetopt mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gengetopt
