[pacman-dev] Why not using the bash getopts buildin? Was: Removing deltas from repos

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for pointing that out.
>>>> I only did a quick look at the outputs of a recursive grep for getopt but
>>>> missed that it only found it in some comments...
>>>
>>> As makepkg shebangs for /bin/bash, why don't we use the getopts buildin
>>> of bash in the first place, was there a reason to not use it?
>>>
>>> To make usage of it could be a reduction in code size (will look into it
>>> if it's desired) and also would not be a portability issue IMO.
>>
>> It's not portable
>>
>>
>
> a bash builtin should be the most portable thing :)

Doh, I skipped over the "builtin" part :S

> We used getopts in the beginning, but it was changed to gnu getopt
> (probably because supporting both long and short options is much
> easier), and then we had to move to our own implementation for
> portability problem.

This is what I meant