On Mon 2008-06-02 11:54, Xavier wrote:
From f5c5a277e2df14650ae441f32950aa6d4deee50f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 21:57:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] makepkg : switch from getopt to getopts builtin
getopt is an external script for parsing and is less portable than getopts which is a bash builtin. The main problem is that it only supports short opts, so long opts had to be dropped. The benefits are a much better portability and a simpler code for the arguments parsing.
Maybe dropping all long options is not a great idea: makepkg has a lot of options and find an alphanumeric character for each is not that easy/intuitive; Furthermore getopt is ported virtually everywhere: Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD etc. and stuff like asciidoc depends upon it. Bear in mind I don't have a strong opinion about that, I was just playing devil's advocate :) -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino Please send personal email to themolok@gmail.com Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB