getopt-long

[Matthias Andree]

Przemyslaw Brojewski <przemek at my.tenbit.pl> writes:

> GNU getopt is a part of glibc. Licenses under LGPL. Are there any
> specific reasons not to use it and chose uogetopt instead?

maintainability reasons. Apparently, uogetopt has some stuff to extract
documentation from the help or vice versa. Autoopts may also offer such
functionality. We should use anything that lets the developer change
once place rather than two.

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Matthias Andree