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Re: Command line parsing with genparse


From: Alfred M. Szmidt
Subject: Re: Command line parsing with genparse
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:55:56 +0100 (CET)

   > Debarshi Ray <address@hidden> converted a bunch of tools in
   > inetutils (http://www.gnu.org/s/inetutils/,
   > http://sv.gnu.org/p/inetutils/) to use argp instead of
   > getopt/getopt_long.  Some which have quite hairy parsing
   > semantics, for example ping which uses children parsers, but that
   > patch is not in CVS yet.
   > 
   > The Hurd also uses argp for some very weird parsing, you can look
   > at examples at http://sv.gnu.org/p/hurd/.

   I just downloaded the inetutils, version 1.5 but I can't find any
   argp code. I looked at ping and ftp. Do I need the latest version
   from git?

>From CVS, but yes.  We are trying to get all the tools converted first
before releasing a new version of inetutils.




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