Re: [PATCH] Use getopt_long() instead of argp_parse() in grub-emu

[Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>]

Marco Gerards wrote:
> Christian Franke <...> writes:
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>> Will argp_parse() be a pre-requisite for building GRUB2 or will
>> argp-standalone be included (some other projects do) ?
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> Personally, I would prefer it if it could be used as an external
> library.  The more we include, the more we need to care about.
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Yes, but then future package maintainers will have fewer portability 
issues to care about :-)


>> If you really want argp, why is it used only for the few trivial
>> options of grub-emu ? The other utils still use getopt_long().
>> grub-emu does not benefit much from argp, but introduces another
>> portability issue.
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> It's what happened :-)
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> Perhaps we should consider getopt_long, for now.  It's one file to
> change...  Does anyone else object?  Otherwise I'll review this patch.
>
>   

I would appreciate this.

Christian