Re: [Psp-dev] [Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo@debian.org>] Bug#193935: please port from deprecated Getopt::Mixed to Getopt::Long

[James E. J. <jam...@fx...>]

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Sam Hartman wrote:

> Hi.  So I know that we were aware of GetOpt::Long when PSP happened.
> What functionality caused GetOpt::Mixed to be selected instead?

It's been a while, but if I remember correctly, I wanted to be able to
support:  "-I/dir1 -I/dir2"  -- and had problems with GetOpt::Long,
either because it didn't support the short arguments and wanted
"--include=/dir1 --include=/dir2" or perhaps because it didn't support
multiple occurances of a single argument.. I don't remember.

> Getopt::Mixed is dead upstream, so I'm declaring libgetopt-mixed-perl
> deprecated.  Since Getopt::Long provides similar functionality, please
> port the package to use Getopt::Long.

sigh.  I guess I need to research why GetOpt::Mixed died, and consider
bringing it back to life.  I liked it a lot better than GetOpt::Long.

Do you know if anyone uses psp?

james