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

[Kevin Brown <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Kevin Brown wrote:

[...]

> > My question is: why are we using our own option parsing functions,
> > instead of using getopt() and friends?
> 
> Search the mailing-list archives.

A good idea.  But it unfortunately proved to be a completely useless
exercise (and yes, I searched ALL of the archives).  The only hit I
got that suggested any problems with getopt was a patch to take it out
of the gtk client due to bugs in GNU getopt (which I would expect have
been fixed by now!).  Everything else referred to a comment that
reads:

 /* no  we don't use GNU's getopt or even the "standard" getopt */
 /* yes we do have reasons ;)                                   */


Anyone have any historical insight into the reasons we don't use
getopt?



-- 
Kevin Brown                                           kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    It's really hard to define what "unexpected behavior" means when you're
                       talking about Windows.