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From: Nathan_Lynch@mentor.com (Nathan Lynch)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:05:39 -0500
Subject: [lttng-dev] [RFC/PATCH 0/3] babeltrace: test harness
 improvements + new tests
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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.