From: Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 <emilian.medve@freescale.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:41:48 GMT
Subject: RE: [ALTERNATE PATCH] Add a simple option parser.
Message-ID: <598D5675D34BE349929AF5EDE9B03E270162501A@az33exm24.fsl.freescale.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710050924530.23684@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hello Linus,


> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote:
> > > 
> > >   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?
> 
> I'd *strongly* argue against new dependencies unless they buy us 
> something major.
> 
> We've been good at cutting them down, including any required 
> libraries 
> internally. We shouldn't add new ones.
> 
> So we'd have to include GNU getopt sources with the git tree, 
> at which 
> point any advantage would be gone. Might as well include a 
> private and 
> simpler version of our own.


>From what I understand argp is part of glibc.


Cheers,
Emil.