[Freeciv-Dev] Re: GUI-specific options don't work properly in 1.12.0 (PR#892)

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Kevin Brown wrote:

> Actually, this has been the case ever since I started looking at the
> code...
> 
> As it stands right now, the main client code has to know about any
> GUI-specific options.  Otherwise, it'll reject the option as being
> unknown to it.
> 
> The following patch fixes this behavior.  It causes the main argument
> parser to call the gui-specific parser when it comes across an option
> it doesn't recognize.
> 
> I have a couple of other patches that I'll be submitting that depend
> on the following patch to function properly.
> 
> 
> My question is: why are we using our own option parsing functions,
> instead of using getopt() and friends?

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