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Re: [help-gengetopt] Options better be optional by default
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Lorenzo Bettini |
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Re: [help-gengetopt] Options better be optional by default |
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Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:23:15 +0000 |
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Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) |
Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> I just hope that in such case (when no "required"/"optional" is defined),
>> the defining option is considered optional by default, instead of mandatory.
>
> options have always been mandatory by default in gengetopt and changing
> this would break previous code.
>
> What I could do is to add a command line argument that permits
> specifying that options are optional by default, what do you think?
>
I've uploaded a candidate release here:
http://rap.dsi.unifi.it/~bettini/gengetopt-2.20.tar.gz
that includes the option --default-optional that considers all options
as optional (if not explicitly specified otherwise)
please let me know whether this solves the problem
thanks
Lore
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