RE: [ALTERNATE PATCH] Add a simple option parser.

From: Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 <emilian.medve@freescale.com>
Date: Oct 5, 2007, 16:10 UTC
Message-ID: <598D5675D34BE349929AF5EDE9B03E2701624FF2@az33exm24.fsl.freescale.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071005155647.GC20305@artemis.corp>

Hi Pierre,

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Habouzit [mailto:madcoder@debian.org] 
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:57 AM
> To: Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
> Cc: Mike Hommey; Kristian Høgsberg; git@vger.kernel.org; 
> Junio C Hamano
> Subject: Re: [ALTERNATE PATCH] Add a simple option parser.
> 
> On ven, oct 05, 2007 at 03:45:36 +0000, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote:
> > You probably already considered and rejected the GNU argp parser. I
> > used it before and I'd like to know reasons I should stay away from
> > it.
> 
>   Because it's GNU and that it's a heavy dependency to begin with.

So it's more of a political decision then a technical one?

> Moreover, getopt_long doesn't deal with argument types (like 
> integers).

AFAIK, getopt_long in not argp.

Cheers, Emil.