Re: [help-gengetopt] option group with exclusion

[PAPP Gyozo]

Finally, I could persuade the customers to allow the use of option
'--exclude'  in conjuction with either of the other three options, so
this way those ones could form a group with mutual exclusive group
options while --exclude can be a plain option. This is more user
friendly as they thought first. :)


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:14:57 +0100, Gyozo, PAPP (VBuster)
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> Hi there,
> 
> currently I'm struggling to implement an interface which is basically a 
> mutually exlcusive group of option with a little exception two of the four 
> options are allowed to appear at the same time.
> 
> Consider the following situation, there are 4 options:
> 
> --all-files
> --pattern
> --include
> --exclude
> 
> the rules which cannot be changed because this was what the customer wanted 
> actually:
> 1.)--all-files should not be used neither of the remaining 3 options.
> 2.)--pattern should not be used neither of the remaining 3 options.
> 3.) BUT --exclude and --include can be used at the same time.
> 
> Apart from the last term this could be easily implemented as a option group. 
> But how to modify gengetopt to be able to handle such a situation? I've added 
> some code around gengetopt calls in my application, but I feel it is worth 
> discussing this problem. May gengetopt address such functionality, too?
> 
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