busybox Digest, Vol 13, Issue 57

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:59:29PM -0300,  Alastor Santamaria wrote:
>hello, quick question, is bb_getopt_ulflags going to disappear?
>
>beacuse I'm going to post an applet that uses it.

No, it will not be removed.

A gazillion of applets do use it and it is a nice and handy impl.

Although landley talked about rewriting it in whole or in parts, he will
need to maintain equivalent functionality anyway.
Personally, i'd be reluctant to accept *any* re-impl of e.g. that
functionality if it does not impose a size-improvement. Otherwise we're
way better of with the functionality that is currently implemented, even
if it may be non-obvious to use for some. That's just me, though.

cheers,