On 01/13/2016 06:59 PM, David Fetter wrote:
>
> I'm happy to add in some form of getopt_long, which I generally prefer
> for self-documentation purposes.  Do we need to do something special
> the way PostgreSQL does?  I presume simply mandating GNU wouldn't
> work.

If your hoping to have something that we could add for a 2.2.x then 
there I wouldn't want to introduce or change any dependencies.

In terms of requiring GNU getopt for 2.3.x I guess it depends on how 
common that is on other platforms:the bsd's, solaris and AIX.  I don't 
think slon uses command line options on win32 (but I could be wrong). I 
do expect slony to build on those platforms without requiring a lot more 
effort than what would be required to build PG.

My take is adding additional command line options is fine for a dot 
release as long as we don't change the names of any existing options. If 
anyone disagrees they should speak up.




>
>> If you're keen on patching in long-ish option names for everything,
>> I don't see a big reason to struggle against that.
>
> I'd be delighted to improve the clarity here.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>