Re: [help-gengetopt] Options better be optional by default

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> I just hope that in such case (when no "required"/"optional" is defined),
>> the defining option is considered optional by default, instead of mandatory. 
> 
> options have always been mandatory by default in gengetopt and changing
> this would break previous code.
> 
> What I could do is to add a command line argument that permits
> specifying that options are optional by default, what do you think?
> 

I've uploaded a candidate release here:

http://rap.dsi.unifi.it/~bettini/gengetopt-2.20.tar.gz

that includes the option --default-optional that considers all options
as optional (if not explicitly specified otherwise)

please let me know whether this solves the problem

thanks
        Lore

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