Re: -s/--schedule requires value

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hello,

Dale Mellor <mcron-lsfnyl@rdmp.org> writes:

> On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 21:20 -0700, Matthew James Kraai wrote:
>> 
>> When I run mcron 1.2.0 in Guix with -s or --schedule without a
>> value, it 
>> displays the following error:
>> ...
>
>    This is a known issue with the current implementation.  The
> problem lies with the getopt-long module in Guile for which I've
> submitted a fix but there has been no movement on that.  The
> mcron GIT repository contains a branch called dm-v1.2.1 which
> fully incorporates the fix into the mcron codebase; you can try
> that if you are able to build and install software on your system
> outside of a package manager.

I think the issue is not related to a limitation in getopt-long. After a
quick look it appears that the "predicate" function used in the ‘schedule’ opts
specification is too restrictive because it doesn't accept ‘#t’:

   (schedule (single-char #\s) (value optional)
                               (predicate ,string->number))

I did not test but I guess something like the following might solve the issue:

   ... (predicate ,(lambda (x)
                     (or (boolean? x)
                         (string->number x))))))

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
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