[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] standard gnu "obligatory" arguments

[Alexander Strasser]

D Richard Felker III wrote ( On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:58:41PM -0400 ):
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:00:57PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Carl Fûrstenberg writes:
> > > this tiny patch first adds support for the --version argument, and
> > > also on both --version and --help stops the program after text is
> > > shown, as written at
> > > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLine-Interfaces.html#Command_002dLine-Interfaces
> > > 
> > > old help-function is not removed yet, can be done later.
> > 
> > Did you test your patch?
> > 
> > silver:/usr/src/mplayer/dev$ ./mplayer --version
> > MPlayer dev-CVS-041009-21:35-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
> > CPU: Advanced Micro Devices K6-2+/K6-III+ Sharptooth (Family: 5, Stepping: 0)
> > Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
> > Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
> > Reading config file /home/diego/.mplayer/config
> > You added '--' but no filenames presented!
> 
> :))
> 
> imo this functionality is not needed. mplayer does not use gnu options
> to begin with, so why should it be "gnu compliant"? -version would
> make sense tho...

haha, same thing I wanted to say... but anyway good you said it, so I'm
not one of those evil MPlayer devels ;)

I always thought mplayer had no -version option cause it prints the version
on every invocation. But I think such an option would still be good as
one could get only the version string with an invocation and no other
stuff like help messages or playing a file.

  Alex (beastd)