The POPT_ARG_BITSET Bloom filter's in popt-1.16 already implicitly are assuming that option values are a (literally) CSV.
And POPT_ARG_ARGV in popt-1.13 (when an option is used multiple times) already are storing a tuple. So I think its time to commit to some conventions (like CSV with ',' or more generally a set of characters for splitting a string into a tuple) so that a tuple can be passed as a single argument and/or with multiple occurrences of an option in a unified and transparent fashion. The pending event is how to deal with a "foo=bar" data mapping, like a symbol table or a python dict. Note that the Bloom filter implementation _ALREADY_ uses Bob Jenkins lookup3.c hash function, all that would remain to implement a mapping in POPT 2.0 is to add hash buckets and a poptHash data type. But I will proceed slowly and carefully to "mappings" in POPT 2.0. 73 de Jeff ______________________________________________________________________ POPT Library http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List [email protected]
