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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: getopt_long missing (or "More esoteric language fun: EsCo")
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:56:06 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi,

On Oct 20, 1:13=A0pm, DJ Delorie <d DOT  DOT  DOT  AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> DJGPP's library is old; it might just be that getopt_long() wasn't
> even considered back then. =A0Feel free to add one, but keep in mind the
> licensing issues - GPL/LGPL is unacceptable in libc, BSD is OK.

Well, it's moot for EsCo since both are GPL anyways, and I at least
got it to work already. Besides, anybody requiring it in their own
programs is likely to already be aware of potential license issues.

For reference, though, a quick look shows that Popt (used by RPM) is
GPL or LGPL license, and even NetBSD (since 1.5) etc. have their own
getopt_long. I honestly doubt it would be too trivial to port to
DJGPP, but hey, it's probably possible.