Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] long options again
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From: Martin Kaiser <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 21:58:03 +0200
Thus wrote 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

we'd still need to keep the manpage in sync...