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Date:      Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:29:36 +0000
From:      Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   adding a new lib for more advanced argument parsing
Message-ID:  <20100927012936.GA32352@freebsd.org>

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hi there,

looking at applications such as geom (g_*), camcontrol, etc. makes one realise
that getopt(3) is clearly not suitable for handling such complex options.
camcontrol.c even contains a whole paragraph about why getopt(3) is considered
not appropriate to handle camcontrol's argument parsing requirements (that was
1998!).

why not do a vendor import of popt 1.16 e.g.? are there license restrictions?
or maybe some other lib...

cheers.
alex

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a13x



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