On Pi, 2007-01-26 at 12:58 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > 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.
Sound reasonable. Would it be of any use if I converted other utils to make use of argp in my spare time? > > Okuji -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
