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diff --git a/website/bugs/use_getopts_instead_of_getopt.mdwn b/website/bugs/use_getopts_instead_of_getopt.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 2ec68d6..0000000 --- a/website/bugs/use_getopts_instead_of_getopt.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -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. |