Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] First XACE draft

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Andreas Leitner wrote:
> 
> Btw, I think I will extend condition variables to include values. just
> like environment variables. Therefor I was looking for a new command
> line syntax and came up with that:

What does the C preprocessor do in that case? Is it something
like that:  -DFOO=BAR  ?

> variable-definitions: --define="VAR_NAME[=VALUE]( VAR_NAME[=VALUE])*"
> 
> examples:
> --define="FOO=BAR"
> --define="FOO=bar ISE VE PLATFORM=linux"
> 
> this new form has the advantage that it is get-opt conform. Now this is
> not GOBO conform, but I think in this case we should consider changing
> the ge-tools to conform to get-opt instead. What do you think?

Why not, but I'm a little bit skeptical about having
several definitions in the same --define option.
Furthermore, if  --define=FOO   is the long option
usage, isn't there a short option usage as well such
as  -d FOO  ?

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