Re: [help-gengetopt]why are print_version and print_help defined static

[Berthold Höllmann]

Lorenzo Bettini <address@hidden> writes:

> Berthold Höllmann wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Why are print_version and print_help defined static in cmdline.c. I
> > would like to use at least print_help from my programm when i.e. a
> > given input file can not be found etc.. Why not adding print_version
> > and print_help to cmdline.h and remove the static specifier?
> 
> You're absolutely right: in the next release they'll be non static so
> that they can be called from the program itself; moreover, one of the
> next feature, is also to customize, both the help and the version, so
> that one can print those information in  GNU standard way.
> 
> If you feel like making these modifications (or you have already done),
> please mail them to me :-)

No, the modifikations weren't done, but they are now. I've added a new
option

option  "public-help"   p "make 'print_help' and 'print_version' accessible" n

to the gengetopt program, which makes print_help and print_version
avaible to the program. Further I added a command "PURPOSE" to the ggo
file. This option allows arbitrary characters (including newlines)
betrween two '"' characters which appear between programname and
"Usage:".

Hope this helps

Greetings

Berthold

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