[lttng-dev] [RFC/PATCH 0/3] babeltrace: test harness improvements + new tests

[Michael Jeanson]

On 2016-10-25 12:05, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> On 10/25/2016 10:50 AM, Jonathan Rajotte Julien wrote:
>>
>> On 2016-10-25 11:34 AM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
>>> This is working toward moving from popt to GLib for command-line
>>> parsing.
>>
>> What is the motivation behind this ?
> 
> Babeltrace already uses GLib extensively and, as best I can tell, it
> doesn't do anything with command-line options that GLib doesn't support.
>  GLib's command-line parsing facility is explicitly intended to be a
> replacement for popt:
> 
> https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Commandline-option-parser.html#glib-Commandline-option-parser.description
> 
> I'm also working on improving Babeltrace's MinGW port and removing the
> popt dependency will make that easier.

You should have a look at
https://github.com/mjeanson/babeltrace/commits/mingw64

Cheers,

Michael