[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>]

2013/7/15 Martin Kaiser <lists@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

this was discussed months ago, I also raised this briefly at Sharkfest -
but I changed my mind since then.

>> Guy Harris skrev 2013-04-09 00:32:

>>> On Apr 8, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Anders Broman <a.bro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> I think we have getopt_long already
>>> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=41926

>> We do, so we have it available on both platforms that have it (most
>> UN*Xes, these days) and platforms that don't (Windows, which has neither
>> getopt() nor getopt_long(), and perhaps some current UN*Xes and older
>> versions of other UN*Xes).

We don't have getopt_long() on windows at the moment. But we're
99% there. All it takes is copying another 10 lines from glibc.

It looks like getopt() and getopt_long() share a lot of helper
functions. So we're not pulling in a lot of new code if we provide a
getopt_long() implementation on windows.

>>We're not using it, however; did you check that in for future use, and
>>did you have any future use in mind?

>I think it was added in conjunction with looking at
>https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2473 at the time I
>think there were discussion about using long options for various stuff.
>I just added it so we would have all options open as I didn't quite like
>the glib implementation for some reason I don't quite remember now.

Lately, I played a bit more with the goptions. Changing completely from
getopt() to goptions seems a lot of work for no real benefit (unless we
do this everywhere where getopt() is used at the moment).

I tried to use goptions only for the long opts and leave getopt() in
place for the existing options. They don't co-exist well, there's always
a way to produce strange errors.

In short: Contrary to what I said at sharkfest, I believe that
getopt_long() is the way to go. Unless anyone protests, I'll make the
required changes and start using it.

Best regards,

   Martin

Hi Martin,

on my side I definitely see the use for long options: we are starting to run out of letters and you already have inconsistencies between various applications.

The use of getopt_long() seems a good tradeoff.

Best regards,
Pascal.