On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 08:29:28PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
>> How's this:
>>
>> pkg.depotd --content-root --mirror
>>
>> Does that set the value of content-root to "--mirror", or does it set the
>> value of content-root to be the built-in default?
>
> The latter thanks to long options parsing (I wish it would force --blah=foo
> as the syntax).
>
> With the long-options parsing, it apparently sees --mirror *as* the value
> to --content-root.
I'm confused. Did those two sentences directly contradict each other?
> Which means I am unable to tell the difference between this:
>
> ./depot.py --content-root --mirror
>
> ...and this:
>
> ./depot.py --content-root /foo
>
> ...except that I throw an error if the directory doesn't exist during
> startup.
... which is "--mirror" in the first example, and "/foo" in the second?
> Well, here's the ugly and uglier:
>
> ./depot.py ... --content-root
>
> ...will cause getopt to raise an error about it requiring an argument.
Right. That's what it should be doing.
> ./depot.py ... --content-root=
>
> ...will cause getopt to return the arg but have it's value set as "". Which
> leaves us to do something with it.
Sure. Presumably you could do the same thing with
./depot.py ... --content-root ""
Danek
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