Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] long options again

[Gisle Vanem <gvanem@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Brandon Carpenter" <hashstat@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have to say that I dislike getopt() and getopt_long() for option 
> parsing because of the disconnect between the options and the help. It 
> creates multiple places that require updating when options change and 
> quite often, one of those places is forgotten.  

Agreed. That's why tools like gengetopt has been developed.
This tool will generate the getopt_long() C-source + the 
help-text from a .ggo file specifying the program args. 

Ref.:
 http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html

--gv