On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:58:07 +1000 Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
Hmm this was about makepkg right? makepkg --help | grep '-' | wc -l 24
lowercase + uppercase gives you 52 options.
Right... We have these options without short version (e.g.) --source --allsource --asroot . Now -r -R -A -s are already used. What would you choose? the are 52 options but I doubt z,y,x... will ever make sense.
Anyway, this is not being changed. If you can provide a single case where the old implementation parses options differently than the current bash implementation, I will be surprised and reward you with a cookie before fixing it.
This was discussed to death ages ago. Go back and read about it.
Allan
This has nothing to do with the new implementation behaving differently from the old one or not. I just raised my concerns (without even being familiar with makepkg source code) and you gave some good counterarguments. I'm fine with that. Sometimes I raise some points, not because I'm convinced they are the way to go, but because it can be interesting for everyone. However, I would like one of those cookies. Dieter