[PATCH wayland v2 2/3] scanner: add a new --include-core-only option

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 03:33:47 PDT 2015


On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:17:33 -0700
Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/29/2015 03:10 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> 
> > Weston had a good reason to not use getopt() I believe: each module
> > parses its own arguments in turn, so command line options are parsed in
> > several passes, and an unknown option is an error only when all modules
> > have had a go.
> 
> The client programs are also using the wayland option parser, so it 
> would be consistent.

Those are in Weston though. This is Wayland.

> Depending on getopt is probably not a great idea. It is not a trivial 
> thing and would be like depending on glib.

Depending on the standard C library is not a good idea?! WTH?


Thanks,
pq


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