[PATCH rendercheck 2/2] Remove getopt-based argument parsing. (bug 6611)

[Matt Turner]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Jesse Adkins <jesserayadkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Alan Coopersmith
> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Jesse Adkins wrote:
>>>
>>>> Solaris 9 doesn't have getopt.
>>>
>>> it has getopt, but doesn't have the nonstandard getopt.h
>>
>> If I remember correctly, it also doesn't have long option support
>> (getopt_long), only traditional getopt.   (And a quick grep of the
>> headers seems to confirm that.)
>>
>> On the other hand, Solaris 9 doesn't really have a working render
>> implementation, and it's from 2002, so no one is going to be
>> putting one there, so I'm tempted to say it's not worth
>> complicating the code for everyone else.
> I wasn't aware that Solaris 9 was that far back. I should have looked
> given the age of the bug. Since it's so old, should I just close the
> bug and the patches get ignored?

Yes, probably so.