[pacman-dev] Why not using the bash getopts buildin? Was: Removing deltas from repos

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:10:24 -0500
Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
> > Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> >> My 2 cents: portability is important, and code conciseness is more
> >> important then having a fancy interface with many possibilities.
> >> Isn't it just redundant/bloat to support both long and short ones?
> >>
> >
> > No....  there are only so many letters of the alphabet and we still
> > have many long options without letters assigned to them that have
> > no obvious shortening.
> 
> No, if anything I'd drop short options and keep long, but there would
> be a lot of pushback.
> 
> Does it matter if it works, and several people here can understand it
> well enough? Most people didn't even know we did this until today and
> we surely didn't hear objections when it went in, so it clearly isn't
> that bad...
> 
> -Dan
> 

Hmm this was about makepkg right? 
makepkg --help | grep '-' | wc -l
24

lowercase + uppercase gives you 52 options.

Dieter