Subject: Re: [ALTERNATE PATCH] Add a simple option parser.

From: Pierre Habouzit <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:49:23 +0200

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:41:48PM +0000, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote:
> Hello Linus,
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >   Because it's GNU and that it's a heavy dependency to begin with.
> > > 
> > > So it's more of a political decision then a technical one?
> > 
> > I'd *strongly* argue against new dependencies unless they buy us
> > something major.
> > 
> > We've been good at cutting them down, including any required
> > libraries internally. We shouldn't add new ones.
> > 
> > So we'd have to include GNU getopt sources with the git tree, at
> > which point any advantage would be gone. Might as well include a
> > private and simpler version of our own.
> 
> 
> From what I understand argp is part of glibc.

  And of course requiring the glibc would be a big step forward for the
msys (or AIX, or HP-UX, or …) port !

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