Re: [help-gengetopt] option sets?

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Phil Edwards wrote:
> 
> Hello.  I've been using 2.5 for a little while, and something I find
> myself doing over and over is checking for mutually-exclusive options.
> An easy example would be the tar(1) program checking its c/r/t/u/x options:
> one and only one must be given.
> 
> Would it be feasible to extend gengetopt to do this checking?  If options
> were listed as part of an "option set" then only one of them could/must
> appear; multiple options from the set would be an error.  By default
> the option "could" appear, the existing 'required' tag would be used for
> "must appear" options.

Well this looks like a nice extension!  I'll try to work on this :-)

thanks a lot for the suggestion.

cheers
        Lorenzo

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