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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: The getopt long thing breaks the tree.
From:       Rob Landley <rob () landley ! net>
Date:       2006-05-31 21:27:58
Message-ID: 200605311727.59583.rob () landley ! net
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On Wednesday 31 May 2006 10:32 am, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> >1) there are options like --color for ls or --Istdin in hdparm (maybe
> > others!?) that have no short option, so these options are lost.
>
> Right.

The easy fix is to add our own short option if anybody complains.

> >Maybe at this point it would be easier to drop long option support at all,
> >at least the design would be clearer.................
>
> That is one possibility, yes. Go ask the maintainer ;)

The maintainer is currently thinking that littering the code with #ifdefs like 
the recent longopt changes did was a bad thing, and that it should have been 
OBVIOUS it was a bad thing, but that nobody thought about it.

The maintainer also thinks that non-linux platforms should never take up more 
than 20% of his time dealing with busybox, but that all he's been hearing 
about recently is people trying to make busybox work on Tru64 and MacOS X and 
strange things they wrote themselves and requesting huge architectural 
changes for personal reasons.  The maintainer is starting to believe he 
opened a pandora's box that should be closed again with a CHAINSAW, 
especially since there are dozens of accumulated changes that went into the 
tree while he was distracted many of which are CRAP.

The maintainer is also hot and tired and in Pittsburgh, where central air 
conditioning is apparently considered optional.  This makes the maintainer 
cranky.

> What i, personally, care about is standard compliance; There simply is no
> such thing like getopt_long nor "struct option".  See 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/getopt.html

There's no such thing as mount in the darn standard either.  You should stop 
using it immediately.

Rob
-- 
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