getopt-long

[Matthias Andree]

Gyepi SAM <gyepi at praxis-sw.com> writes:

> Another method I have used successfully is to maintain the list in
> text format and use perl to parse it and output the appropriate c
> files.  If I were doing it again, however, I would use tools like
> autogen and gslgen and save myself some trouble.  Requiring such tools
> would of developers should be OK, I figure.

I won't object if the generated code works reasonably well. (AFAIR, the
GNU getopt code is supposed to be shipped with other GPL code, should
that matter.) Apparently, the uogetopt that I mentioned earlier is
supposed to tackle some of the maintenance problems as well.

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Matthias Andree