On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:58:07 +1000 Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > Hmm this was about makepkg right? > > makepkg --help | grep '-' | wc -l > > 24 > > > > lowercase + uppercase gives you 52 options. > > > > Right... We have these options without short version (e.g.) > --source --allsource --asroot . Now -r -R -A -s are already used. > What would you choose? the are 52 options but I doubt z,y,x... > will ever make sense. > > Anyway, this is not being changed. If you can provide a single case > where the old implementation parses options differently than the > current bash implementation, I will be surprised and reward you with > a cookie before fixing it. > > This was discussed to death ages ago. Go back and read about it. > > Allan This has nothing to do with the new implementation behaving differently from the old one or not. I just raised my concerns (without even being familiar with makepkg source code) and you gave some good counterarguments. I'm fine with that. Sometimes I raise some points, not because I'm convinced they are the way to go, but because it can be interesting for everyone. However, I would like one of those cookies. Dieter
