On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote: > The best plan after that seems to be to add optional_argument support to > getopt_long.c - looks easy enough. Do we need a configure test for > optional_argument? I don't think so, but I could see somebody arguing > the other way round. Adding support for optional_argument in src/port would be the best solution for long-term purposes. So +1 for it or we'll be limited in the future as well. Here is for example attached a proof-of-concept patch that it is not that complicated to add support for optional arguments... Interestingly, the current implementation dates of 2003 in 939a59f and has not been majorly touched since. The patch has been tested with MSVC. -- Michael
