From owner-cvs-all Mon Sep 30 3:49:59 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2060437B401; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 03:49:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4A843E65; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 03:49:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@starjuice.net) Received: from sheldonh by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local (Exim 4.10) id 17vy7c-0003Xk-00; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:49:52 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:49:52 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: David O'Brien Cc: Kris Kennaway , Mike Barcroft , Eric Melville , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include Makefile getopt.h src/lib/libc/stdlib Makefile.inc getopt_long.3 getopt_long.c Message-ID: <20020930104952.GQ9330@starjuice.net> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Kris Kennaway , Mike Barcroft , Eric Melville , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200209290414.g8T4EbCp043463@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020929044029.GA25349@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020929044137.GB14475@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020929010354.B622@espresso.q9media.com> <20020929051536.GA33717@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020929185747.GA85357@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020929185747.GA85357@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On (2002/09/29 11:57), David O'Brien wrote: [... getopt_long support imported ...] > > > > NetBSD's pax uses this for longopt support in tar compatibility mode. > > > > > > Is this the extent to which it will be used in the base system? > > > > Well, I hope no-one has ideas about making it pervasive except for > > compatibility purposes. > > Even that is too nebulous. One might add all the '--' GNU ls options to > BSD ls for "compatibility purposes". Or add the GNU AWK '--' options, > especially since releng4's awk has them. Or du, df, etc.... Could you live with this policy: Tools in the base system may only use getopt_long to provide functionality offered in previously released versions of the base system. I think that as long as we constrain ourselves to using this for backward compatibility, we should be okay. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message