Hi David, > AFAIK we've dropped intentionally the POSIX style command line, because > we don't want to maintain 2 style of command lines.
Thanks for the information. Actually, that was one of the possibilities that I initially suspected, but I couldn't find any information about dropping the support for the POSIX-style command line based on the web search and the search on GitHub. I also attempted to search the mailing list archive, but most of the discussions seemed to be far older than a point when the POSIX-style command line was clearly supported. Is there any pointer for dropping the POSIX-style command line (anything is fine, such as an official announcement, a discussion, or commits that dropped the POSIX-style command line)? Maybe it is outdated, but the wiki page [2] mentioned in my first post still explains that both the POSIX- and Windows-style options are available. Also, the current codebase apparently contains the detection of the POSIX-style and WIndows command lines [8]. What are these codes? Maybe they are used elsewhere. Or maybe dead codes are maintained within the codebase. [8] https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/blob/fa4d99ac5aad0a34f3ad609bf0f664b54cba1cd7/client/common/cmdline.c#L1636-L1639 Based on my observation using the actual binary of xfreerdp [FreeRDP version 3.12.0 (n/a)] in the Fedora 41 distribution, xfreerdp does seem to parse some POSIX-style long options. I haven't tested with the actual remote desktop server, but at least the behavior is different when I specify existing and non-existing long options such as "--timeout 100" vs "--timeoutxxx". The former seems to cause a runtime error, while the latter seems to cause the command-line error. Does that mean the support for the POSIX-style command line was dropped after 3.12.0? I don't seem to be able to find anything relevant to it on the release page, https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/releases. Or is the behavior that I observed some remnants or oversight of the removed POSIX-style command line? Based on these observations, my impression is that the support for the POSIX-style command lines haven't yet been dropped officially, even though its use doesn't seem to be encouraged very much. Best regards, Koichi _______________________________________________ FreeRDP-devel mailing list FreeRDP-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
