From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:28:30 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <200711020828.30969.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200711020825.23464.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Petr Baudis wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:04:03AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> >> 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.

Just a thought:
  http://www.systhread.net/texts/200704optparse.php

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland