getopt and dbus
Axel Liljencrantz
liljencrantz at gmail.com
Thu Dec 28 08:22:56 PST 2006
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?
--
Axel
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