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From: "G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
Subject: Re: ANN: Command Line Parser Generator
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:35:54 +0200
Date: 2015-08-21T11:35:54+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mr6raj$3un$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bne1jdwf.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk>

On 21.08.15 09:31, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
>> I'd rather like to believe that, but the Makefile is not usable in a
>> Unix environment if it is not contemporary GNU/Linux ;-)
>
> I must admit that I consider the GNU style of long command line
> arguments much more maintainable than the traditional UNIX style of
> single letter arguments.  But to make life easier for non-GNU users,
> I've updated the Makefile (and test scripts) to use single letter
> arguments.

It's the option, not its name. (Long names are fines, also less
prone to ambiguity, across systems.)
"This option is a GNU extension", so it works on GNU systems.

I'll try to make something equivalent, based on POSIX. (That kind
of work is part of every day work life, so it shouldn't be hard.)


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-21  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-20 13:15 ANN: Command Line Parser Generator Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-08-20 14:20 ` G.B.
2015-08-21  7:31   ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-08-21  9:35     ` G.B. [this message]
2015-08-22  5:25       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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