Re: redundancy, and how to reduce it

2002-07-14 Thread Miles Bader
Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I like the idea of simplifying things. I suggest just doing one tool > > at first and seeing how the feedback goes. > > And what's wrong with using argp? It's there, it's tested and used. One objection might be the lack of a standard standalone ve

Re: redundancy, and how to reduce it

2002-07-14 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 21:44, Paul Eggert wrote: > I like the idea of simplifying things. I suggest just doing one tool > at first and seeing how the feedback goes. And what's wrong with using argp? It's there, it's tested and used. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Ches

redundancy, and how to reduce it

2002-07-14 Thread Andrew D Jewell
When adding new options to gnu utilities, I am always annoyed that I have to add each option in four places : long-options short-options usage() whatever.texi The solution I've come up with is to replace the glocal "stuct option" definition in the main program source with typedef struct linef

Re: redundancy, and how to reduce it

2002-07-14 Thread Paul Eggert
> From: Andrew D Jewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:38:34 -0400 > > Is this something of interest to the community as a whole? > Should I work on changing some standard tools and submitting patches, > or should I shut the hell up? I like the idea of simplifying things. I su