Alessio Bolognino wrote: > On Mon 2008-06-02 11:54, Xavier wrote: > >> >From f5c5a277e2df14650ae441f32950aa6d4deee50f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Xavier Chantry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 21:57:28 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] makepkg : switch from getopt to getopts builtin >> >> getopt is an external script for parsing and is less portable than getopts >> which is a bash builtin. >> The main problem is that it only supports short opts, so long opts had to be >> dropped. >> The benefits are a much better portability and a simpler code for the >> arguments parsing. >> > > Maybe dropping all long options is not a great idea: makepkg has a lot > of options and find an alphanumeric character for each is not that > easy/intuitive; Furthermore getopt is ported virtually everywhere: Mac > OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD etc. and stuff like asciidoc > depends upon it. > >
Wasn't the whole point of this that getopt didn't work properly/as expected on BSD? > Bear in mind I don't have a strong opinion about that, I was just > playing devil's advocate :) > Well, I am not a fan! Has anybody looked into parsing options manually? I seem to recall Xavier point out a bash implementation that could be used. makepkg does not have anything too complex (options take one arg max) so it should be fairly easy. I'd much prefer a parse_options function to be added than to lose all the long options. However, if that proves too complex a solution, I will graciously accept defeat... Allan _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
