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

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:41:48PM +0000, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote:

Hello Linus,

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On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote:

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  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?

I'd *strongly* argue against new dependencies unless they buy us
something major.

We've been good at cutting them down, including any required
libraries internally. We shouldn't add new ones.

So we'd have to include GNU getopt sources with the git tree, at
which point any advantage would be gone. Might as well include a
private and simpler version of our own.

From what I understand argp is part of glibc.

  And of course requiring the glibc would be a big step forward for the
msys (or AIX, or HP-UX, or …) port !

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