From: Pierre Habouzit Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:26:34 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] parse-opt: fake short strings for callers to believe in. Message-ID: <20080624192634.GA9189@artemis.madism.org> In-Reply-To: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:20:28PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > If we begin to parse -abc and that the parser knew about -a and -b, it > > will fake a -c switch for the caller to deal with. > > > > Of course in the case of -acb (supposing -c is not taking an argument) the > > caller will have to be especially clever to do the same thing. We could > > think about exposing an API to do so if it's really needed, but oh well... > > Well, if the other parser is _also_ parse_options() (ie you just cascade > them incrementally in a loop), then the other parser should get it right > automatically. No? Exactly. There are minor glitches wrt the help generation to deal with, but for pure parsing issues yes, it will work. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org