Re: [ALTERNATE PATCH] Add a simple option parser.

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:20:33PM +0000, David Kastrup wrote:

"Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1" [off-list ref] writes:

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Hi Pierre,

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-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Habouzit [mailto:madcoder@debian.org] 
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:57 AM
To: Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
Cc: Mike Hommey; Kristian Høgsberg; git@vger.kernel.org; 
Junio C Hamano
Subject: Re: [ALTERNATE PATCH] Add a simple option parser.

On ven, oct 05, 2007 at 03:45:36 +0000, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote:

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You probably already considered and rejected the GNU argp parser. I
used it before and I'd like to know reasons I should stay away from
it.

  Because it's GNU and that it's a heavy dependency to begin with.

So it's more of a political decision then a technical one?

Well, if it is GNU then it is likely to mean GPLv3 (or GPLv3+) at some
point of time, though it should certainly be possible for now to still
secure a v2-licensed version (either GPL or LGPL).

  That is an issue indeed.

And the typical git developer AFAICT prefers to consider themselves as
unaligned with GNU and the FSF as much as possible.

  And is nothing near reality in my case.

  The real issue is dependency and bloat. getopt_long would need the GNU
implementation, That I believe depends upon gettext, and argp is just
bloated, and I'm not even sure it's distributed outside from the glibc
anyways.

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