Re: Argument parsing

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> > is there any reason why GTK+ is still manually parsing all its
> > command line arguments and not using popt ?
> 
> Because popt is fairly crappy and we don't want a dependency on it.
> The idea for much of the 2.0 cycle was to add a nice arg parser to
> glib. But it got punted.

What's so bad about popt ?

> (As an implementation detail, we could use statically-linked popt
> internally for our own args, but it doesn't seem very interesting
> whether that's done or not.)

Well, this'll at least make it much easier to write arg parser functions
in program which are using gtk+.

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Martin Baulig
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