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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: For comment: problems with toolkit arg processing/philosophy
Message-ID: <1852@geac.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 20:34:07 EST
Article-I.D.: geac.1852
Posted: Tue Nov 17 20:34:07 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 05:15:25 EST
References: <871106083928.4.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU> <127@bacchus.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star.
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Summary: So make your framework adaptable, already...

In article <127@bacchus.DEC.COM> karlton@decwrl.UUCP (Philip Karlton) writes:
||Date: Mon, 2 Nov 87 15:21:44 PST
||From: bilbo.geoff@CS.UCLA.EDU (     Geoff Kuenning)
|...
||	This bug brings up a much larger issue, which is the X
||	project's approach to argument design. ...
||      acceptable leadin character is "-";  negating flags
||	with "+" or using special characters such as "=" to indicate
||	certain types of arguments are not allowed.  
|...
|
|It is not intended that X only be available on a single operating system.
|There is no single convention that will make everybody happy. The X community
|has to decide if it wants to pick a single method convention or leave that up
|to the vender/OS.

  Hey people, why not push the problem out of the X world by saying
that client programs are advised to use getopt, and be prepared to
have different implementations of getopt for different
convention-sets selected in their linkage directives.  After all,
this is a POSIX/VMS/whatever issue, not an X issue.

 --dave (mix not the metaphors) c-b
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