Re: long options again

[Martin Kaiser <lists () kaiser cx>]

Thus wrote Gisle Vanem (gvanem () broadpark no):

> "Brandon Carpenter" <hashstat () pnnl gov> 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...
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