Re: [Bayonne-devel] Command line argument parsing in Bayonne is non-standard

[David Sugar]

This needed to be updated anyway since I think some of our options are 
no longer consistent with other GNU programs, and this is a good time to 
look at this.  You might also like to look at the new sipwitch codebase. 
   Maybe audiotool (from GNU ccaudio) should also be revised.

Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am Antonio Diaz, maintainer of some GNU packages.
>
> I have noticed that Bayonne's code for parsing command line arguments 
> lacks some features of POSIX and GNU standards. For example, short 
> options can't be grouped, long option names have to be complete 
> (unambiguous prefixes are rejected), etc.
>
> I have written Arg_parser, a parser class for command line arguments 
> that is both safe and easy to use. Arg_parser does not use the functions 
> getopt nor getopt_long, and avoids all their inconvenients. For example, 
>  it does not use global variables, you no more have to maintain a 
> long_options struct and a separated options string, etc.
>
> At least four GNU programs are currently using Arg_parser, and I expect 
> this number to grow soon.
>
> Here https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/arg-parser/ you can find a 
> description of Arg_parser. If you like it, you may use it in Bayonne or 
> any other project. If you need help switching to Arg_parser, I can send 
> you a patch for bayonne2-2.3.2.
>
>
> Regards,
> Antonio.
>
>
>
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