long / short options (was Re: start-stop-daemon does not recognise --start)

[Ralf Friedl]

Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Try this patch.
> ...
Do you think it would be useful to define something like this:

#define OPTION_HELP_TEXT(SHORT, LONG, TEXT) SHORT 
USE_FEATURE_LONG_OPTIONS(LONG) TEXT

Then the options could be written as

OPTION_HELP_TEXT(" -v", ", --verbose", " Verbose\n")

and the middle Part could be included/excluded as necessary. That would 
avoid duplicating the description for the "long option" / "no long 
option" cases and make it easier to maintain.

Regards
Ralf Friedl