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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Oct 5, 2007, 16:28 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710050924530.23684@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <598D5675D34BE349929AF5EDE9B03E2701624FF2@az33exm24.fsl.freescale.net>

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.

		Linus