Subject: Re: deprecating long options in tar and cpio (was: CVS commit: src)
To: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/27/1999 00:12:30
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Andrew Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 08:18:33AM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> >Exactly how does having longopts for compatibility (and the ability to have
> >more than 52 options) *hurt* you?
>
> 52?! gzip -9! and so on...
>
> one could "conceivably" have almost twice that many...
Just to throw in more data, there's a nice example of how fat this option
parsing game can get at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/claud.maille/gaa.html.
(IMHO, this guy should be LART with getopt/getopt_long manpages.)
- Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>