[getopt-sig] commands on the command line

[Greg Ward]

On 04 March 2002, Matthias Urlichs said:
> Personally, I fail to have a problem with
> 
> - parse global options with one instance of an option parser
> - interpret the first non-option as command (assuming that options and
>   arguments are Not To Be Interspersed)
> - parse command's options with another, different parser instance
> 
> so frankly I don't see the point of your code..?

I completely agree with Matthias.  In fact, I posted pseudo-code for how
to do precisely this with Optik a few weeks ago.

Furthermore, this is a pretty arcane special case; the only obvious
examples I can think of offhand are CVS and the Distutils.  If I can't
rewrite the Distutils' command-line processing with whatever comes out
of this SIG, then this will have been a big fat waste of time, but I
certainly don't think Optik (or whatever) needs to directly accomodate
this somewhat unusual syntax.

        Greg
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