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

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Jason Short wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 21:39, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> >
> > Looking at the current sourcecode (client/civclient.c) the options after
> > after '--' are passed to the ui_main function which passes them to
> > 'gtk_init' hence this problem does not exist anymore.
>
> This sounds correct.  However we also have
>
> [jdorje@localhost:~/src/freeciv/freeciv]$ ./civ -- --help
> Report bugs to <bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
>
> which is not quite right.  IMO this string should be appended to the
> normal --help output, and --help as a GUI option should be sent straight
> through to the GUI code (at least for GUIs where it does something).

I think the idea behind parse_options is to enable clients to have client
specific options which are not related to the toolkit.

Fact is none do so ATM.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa