On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:25, Lubomir Kundrak wrote: > I've noticed, that GRUB 2 uses argp in grub-emu [1], whereas other > utilities use getopt_long [2]. Wouldn't it be nice to make this > consistent?
Maybe. > I find the "GNU way," argp, approach more elegant, as demonstrated by a > patch to util/i386/pc/grub-mkimage.c. Seeing a patch with more minuses > than pluses is a good sign, indeed. > > The main argument against agrp framework could be, that non-GNU C > libraries do not contain with it. There's a standalone libargp package > [3] that is available for package systems of all major operating > systems, including NetBSD and FreeBSD, so the only disadvantage is > addding a dependency there. I preferred that libargp would be included in our source tree so that it would be used when argp is not found in a system, but I guess Marco hasn't done it yet. This depends on which is more convenient for users, using an external shared library, or using our own. In GRUB Legacy, I included getopt for *BSD, and I got positive answers. So I feel that it would be better to include. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
