Thus wrote Gisle Vanem (gvanem@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> "Brandon Carpenter" <hashstat@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have to say that I dislike getopt() and getopt_long() for option
>> parsing because of the disconnect between the options and the help. It
>> creates multiple places that require updating when options change and
>> quite often, one of those places is forgotten.
> Agreed. That's why tools like gengetopt has been developed.
> This tool will generate the getopt_long() C-source + the help-text from a
> .ggo file specifying the program args.
> Ref.:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html
we'd still need to keep the manpage in sync...