Re: cmdline_file_save accepts file handler instead

Lorenzo Bettini <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.gengetopt.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Papp Gyozo (VBuster) wrote:
>> by the way, I still haven't started to work on the group options we 
> 
> Never mind because in the meanwhile we also postponed the integration of the two product where it could lend me some help. By the way, I still support it.
> 

OK, as soon as I have something ready I'll tell you

>> discussed because I'm refactoring the generated code so that there's
>> much less duplicated code,
> 
> Ooh then one another thing (I'm afraid I noted it earlier, too.)
> What about merging the two help array into one? As far as I know, there are two separate array one with help string with each option while the other with only "public" options (no hidden). I prefer to do it like this:
> 
> struct {
>    const char *text;
>    int        public;
> } cmdline_options_help[] = {
>   { "  -h, --help                   Print help and exit", 1 },
>   ...
> };
> 
> void
> cmdline_print_help (void)
> {
>   ...
>   for (i = 0; cmdline_options_help[i]; i++ ) {
>     if ( cmdline_options_help[i].public )
>        printf("%s\n", cmdline_options_help[i].text );
>   }
> }
> 
> void
> cmdline_print_help (void)
> {
>   ...
>   while (cmdline_options_full_help[i].text)
>     printf("%s\n", cmdline_options_full_help[i++].text);
> }
> 
> 
> It's just code cosmetic but it may leverage someone's convenience level with the gengetopt sources.
> 

yes, actually I was also starting to work on this.  I'm a little bit 
reluctant on using a structure for the help strings, since this might 
break previous code... I could build one array starting from the other 
though (sharing strings)...

cheers
	Lorenzo

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