[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: getopt_long and help2man

Christian,

Setting up a separate branch for these things sounds like a good idea. I 
found that setting up branches was really simple after I checked out the 
entire svn tree. My own development branch is johnb-devel , where I am 
working on code to handle math codes like UK maths and Marburg. I do not 
plan to do any work on the tools for a while, so merging should be 
simple.

John

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:00:11AM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 09:55 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > I would rather that liblouis did not use the getopt_long function, since 
> > it is not portable beyond Gnu systems. Samuel answered my question about 
> > mingw.  I'll see what the problem with help2man was again.
> 
> Don't worry about help2man as its use will be optional. As for
> getopt_long I would like to use it as I'd rather not implement my own
> cross platform  option parsing. I would like to see the following
> strategy forward: There is the GNU Portability Library
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/) which is basically a collection of
> code snippets that tie in with automake. So in the case of getopt there
> are automake macros which test the capabilities of getopt.h and in the
> case of a non-gnu or non-posix provide their own implementation of
> getopt_long. This should have us covered for any Unix, Windows and Mac
> and probably more. I got the idea when looking at the source code of GNU
> hello :-).
> 
> I will try to set up the whole thing on a separate branch where it can
> be tested and evaluated. If we decide that we like it we can merge it
> back to the main branch.
> 
> Comments, ideas, objections?
> 
> Thanks
> Christian
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