getopt has been ported to every platform.  I can't name a C library that
doesn't use it.  Anyhow, adding dependencies for shear laziness to do things
by hand is stupid esp. for a command line parser.  Give me a list of opts
and long opts in plaintext on an email with their help messages and I'll
create the getopt_long stuff myself.

Dan

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:31:51PM -0000, Aaron Stone wrote:
> Dan Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:05:46PM -0000, Aaron Stone wrote:
> >> ""Wolfram A. Kraushaar"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >>
> >> > :)
> >> >
> >> > What about using popt instead of getopt in a future version?
> >>
> >> Popt looks pretty neat, and it's small and portable and gives us long
> >> options without relying on GNU getopt_long. So, if we decide to do long
> >> options, we should probably move to popt at the same time.
> >>
> >> Currently in CVS, and waiting to be reborn in 2.1, is the Sieve command
> >> line tool. We might consider popt-ing it first, since it probably will
> >> need to be rewritten before 2.2 comes out -- but if not, let's not make
> >> unneeded work.
> > 
> > You make it seems like using getopt_long has difficulty in which it really
> > has none.
> 
> Popt gives us help text and a little bit more portability.
> 
> Aaron
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