From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 9 11:55:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29209 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:55:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29112 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:55:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA010163310; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:01:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:01:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: stephen farrell Cc: freebsd ports Subject: Re: getopt_long In-Reply-To: <87ogsptna4.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm not a programmer, but I would see this as a positive. Many ports I've done have tried to include(and obviously) use this. On 9 Sep 1998, stephen farrell wrote: > a lot of gnu developers use getopt_long--would it make sense to make a > port of library to handle this (-lgetopt), so that ports can just link > against this? - bill fumerola [root/billf]@chc-chimes.com - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800)252.2421 x128 / bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - BF1560 - "Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities" -Lord Dunsany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message