Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Nov 2, 2007, 07:25 UTC
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- <200711020825.23464.jnareb@gmail.com>
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- <20071102022335.GU18279@machine.or.cz>
Petr Baudis napisał:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:04:03AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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>> Is 'getopts' bash-ism, or is it in POSIX? > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/getopts.html > > (Also, most modern distributions have manpage section 1p (3p, ...) with > the same contents, so you can check for this stuff pretty easily.)
Thanks.
I have just realized however that it doesn't help any (option parser not only for C builtin, but also for shell scripts, Perl scripts and Python scripts). First, we (the git development community) do not consider fact that something is in POSIX as indicator that we can use the construct. Second, getopts delas IIRC only with _short_ options.
-- Jakub Narebski Poland