Re: GnomeProgram in libgnome

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, James Henstridge wrote:
> Argument parsing is the big one that needs to be done cooperatively in
> order to be done right.  You really need to know of all the acceptable
> options in order to parse the arguments.  For example:
>   --foo --display bar:0.0

	Precicely - added to that, you need to be able to supply the
correct help list for all the libraries that one uses; gnome_program_init
makes this slightly more elegant.

> Having an easy way for libraries to cooperate in argument parsing is a
> good reason to keep gnome_program_init().

	Yes.

		Michael.

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