From owner-cvs-all Mon Sep 30 4: 0:12 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 08DF437B657; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 04:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DB443E42; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 04:00:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8UB09B0077674; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:00:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with UUCP id g8UB09sN077673; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:00:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8UAwQcD016115; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:58:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200209301058.g8UAwQcD016115@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: 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 References: <20020930104952.GQ9330@starjuice.net> In-Reply-To: <20020930104952.GQ9330@starjuice.net> ; from Sheldon Hearn "Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:49:52 +0200." Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:58:25 +0100 From: Mark Murray 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 > > > 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. ... or contrib'ed sources (such as GNU software) that need it by default. > I think that as long as we constrain ourselves to using this for > backward compatibility, we should be okay. Backward _and_ GNU. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message