GetOpt formatting improvements

Neil Mitchell ndmitchell at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 12:07:21 EDT 2008


Hi

>  Anyway, the maximum output width, as well as a maximum indentation for the
>  option descriptions should be arguments to (new, additional) functions
>  getOptExt and usageInfoExt, with the old getOpt and usageInfo being defined
>  in terms of the new variants.

I think thats a really bad idea. We want options that work and do the
sensible thing. When would a user want to set these options to
different values? Without a use case, and a potential user, these
extra variants are a waste of hard-drive space.

Thanks

Neil


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