Re: [Flex-devel] scanopt rework?

[Will E. <wes...@gm...>]

On Monday, 13 November 2017,  5:21 pm +0800, Kang-Che Sung <exp...@gm...> wrote:

> Now, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to make pull requests that modifies the
> scanopt interface to match one of the GNU interfaces above.

A pull request is a pull request. The usual metric is that the more you change, the more important it has to be.

> My questions are these:
> 1. Will a pull request that may modify the optspec_t structure and the option.c
>    entries be accepted?

Depends. I have nothing against such a pull request as such.

> 2. If accepts such a pull request, should I keep the description field in
>    optspec_t and the scanopt_usage() function when possible, or is it fine to
>    remove them altogether? (I personally prefers to remove, as they
>    unnecessary complicates the translation.)


When you make the pull request, just explain why you do what you do and why that's better -- if it's not obvious from "why".

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