In message: <[email protected]> Alexander Best <[email protected]> writes: : hi there, : : looking at applications such as geom (g_*), camcontrol, etc. makes one realise : that getopt(3) is clearly not suitable for handling such complex options. : camcontrol.c even contains a whole paragraph about why getopt(3) is considered : not appropriate to handle camcontrol's argument parsing requirements (that was : 1998!). : : why not do a vendor import of popt 1.16 e.g.? are there license restrictions? : or maybe some other lib...
popt has an X11 license, which isn't a big deal. However, it depends on gettext, which is pure GPL. Also, POSIX has a lot to say about command line parsing, and popt doesn't quite match what POSIX has to say... Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
