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diff --git a/website/bugs/use_getopts_instead_of_getopt.mdwn b/website/bugs/use_getopts_instead_of_getopt.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ec68d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/bugs/use_getopts_instead_of_getopt.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Since Monkeysphere is using bash, it would be nice to use the shell +build in getopts function, instead of the external getopt program. +This would reduce an external dependency, which would definitely be +better for portability. + +--- + +So it looks like the sh built-in getopts does not include long options +(eg. "--expire"). Is it worth getting rid of the long options for +this? + +--- + +Why not just get rid of getopts altogether and perform a simple +argument-processing loop with bash string tests? We're only invoking +getopt in three places, and each invocation is no more complex than +three arguments -- and most arguments take a separate parameter, which +means that handling tricky arg blobs like -aCxr are not gonna be +supported anyway. |