Ariel <asdeb...@dsgml.com> writes: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Rob Browning wrote:
>> If we want "-b [foo]", I'll need to specify "b" to getopt (no colons) >> and handle any subsequent oss|alsa value manually (increment optind, >> etc.). That works -- or we can just require -balsa/-boss. > Are you sure about that with getopt? The manual shows differently: > http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Example-of-Getopt.html#Example-of-Getopt > > -cfoo and -c foo were parsed the same in the example. With option pattern "b::", only -bfoo appears to work; "-b foo" works if the argument to -b is not optional, i.e. if you specify pattern "b:". Though as I mentioned, with a bit of extra code in the 'b' case in the getopt() loop, we can implement the "-b [foo]" semantics manually if we like. >> For backward compatibility, I imagine we shouldn't require -o, and >> should just default to oss when -b isn't specified. > > Nah, oss is dead, it's not useful as a default and backwards > compatibility is not really that necessary. Right, but I'm thinking about existing systems that are still running saytime, perhaps as part of some larger cron/at based alert system (I used to use it as a simple alarm). Say they're calling "saytime -o /dev/theircard"; I'd rather not force that to break without a good reason. >> Of course, if we didn't have to worry about backward compatibility at >> all, it'd be nicest to have saytime default to sox -d whenever -b and -o >> aren't specified, since that's probably more portable. > > No, don't worry about backward compatibility at all. If it bothers > you, then put in a NEWS file that lets people know the options > changed. If we were fairly certain that "sox -d" was the same or better on the vast majority of systems, then that might be worth thinking about for the case where neither -b nor -o is specified. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
