[ECOS] Re: Improvement to makemakefile script

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Koeller, T. wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> there are some more thougths about possible improvements
> to the makemakefile script I would like to share with you
> and of course anyone else who may care:
>
> You rejeceted my use of $(command) in favor of `command`.
> Does this mean you do not want bash-specific things to
> be used (or is it even bash-specific, I'm not quite sure
> about that)? 

Yep.

> On the other hand, the PACKAGEVER thing is
> definitly very bash-specific,

${1:-default} is standard sh I believe.

> and not very well-designed
> either, as it depends on the particular position of the
> command-line argument.

? It's the _only_ allowed argument so $1 had better be right :-).

> I thought of using 'getopts' for argument parsing. This
> would also allow for easy addition of more arguments.
> One thing I find particularly desirable is the ability
> to specify which doclist file to use. This would give us
> full position independence. But I am afraid you would be
> opposed to using 'getopts', too, or wouldn't you?

Yep, sorry. But there are pretty standard simple ways to parse arguments 
in standard sh just using a for loop and a "case".

Jifl
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