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SubjectRe: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: improve config-file support
Hi Andrew!

What's the status of this patch?
Do you take it, or do you have an issue with it? This is a clear
improvement in my opinion.

cheers,
Flo

On Thu, 13 May 2010 09:56:52 +0200
Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 2010 15:28:53 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 23:12 +0200, florian@mickler.org wrote:
> > > This changes the syntax of the config-file introduced in the commit
> > > "scripts/get_maintainer.pl: add .get_maintainer.conf default options
> > > file".
> > > Entries are now of the more commonly found form:
> > > key = value
> > > where keys are cmd-line arguments without the "--" prefixed.
> >
> > I don't have a strong opinion one way or another about the
> > .conf file format.
> >
> > Another option which could be useful: --noconf, don't read the file.
> >
> > > as well as warn if unrecognized options are
> > > specified.
> >
> > The old approach does that as well.
>
> True.
>
> >
> > > +if (!GetOptions( \%prefs,
> >
> > I think you don't need to repeat the options.
> > Doesn't this work?
> > if (!GetOptions(\%prefs)) {
> > die "$P: invalid argument - use --help if necessary\n";
> >
> No, GetOpts::Long needs a special markup for parsing the cmdline
> string, like =s for specifying that that option is accompanied by a
> string value or the ! for specifying that it is a flag.
> Also there are aliases defined for config-options.
>
> Cheers,
> Flo



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