From: Patrick Lam (plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 23:10:08 EDT
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 03:25:53AM +0100, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> In the past didn't we try to keep our external
> requirements to a minimum? I'm starting to be
> concerned that we may requiring too many libraries
> and that some of them may not be properly XP.
I think that on all systems besides Windows, popt is the
correct library to use for commandline parsing (which
really, really sucks right now.) Plus, gnome uses popt
already.
It may or may not be the case that we want to avoid
using popt on Windows. Windows apps still do take
command-line arguments, but they're slightly different
from command-line arguments on other platforms (which
do mostly seem similar).
One thing I've thought of is a preprocessing phase on the
commandline before we let popt at it. Not sure yet.
> This is what I mean by "properly XP". The Windows
> equivalent to a lot of command-line options might
> sometimes be the context menu...
I couldn't understand this sentence.
pat
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