getopt and dbus

[Thiago Macieira]

Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I noticed that the dbus tools do their own options parsing instead of
>using e.g. getopt. This introduces minor incompatibilities with nearly
>every other commandline program, including:
>
>* No support for partial long-style switches, e.g. '--auto' should be
>identical to '--auto-syntax'.
>* No grouping of short switches, e.g '-cs' should be identical to '-c
> -s'.
>
>Also, the code for passing arguments with long-style switches is
>significantly more complex than it needs to be.
>
>Would patches for using getopt be accepted?

Yes, but you need to include the getopt_long function itself, under a 
suitable license (GPL + AFL1.1, or less restrictive).

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