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shFlags.sh 1.0.1 Release Notes
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Preface
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Copyright 2008 Kate Ward. All Rights Reserved.
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Released under the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License)
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Author: Kate Ward (kate.ward@forestent.com)
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This document covers any known issues and workarounds for the stated release of
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shFlags.
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General info
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This is both a minor bug fix release, and a minor new feature release of
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shFlags. It adds several warning messages, fixes three issues, and now displays
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the default value behind the help string when help is requested. Additionally,
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the coding standards have been modified slightly and officially documented.
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They were taken from the standards used by shUnit2 (the unit testing framework
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used for the unit testing).
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Please see the CHANGES-1.0.txt file for a complete list of changes.
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The unit tests
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shFlags is designed to work on as many environments as possible, but not all
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environments are created equal. As such, not all of the unit tests will succeed
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on every platform. The unit tests are therefore designed to fail, indicating to
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the tester that the supported functionality is not present, but an additional
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test is present to verify that shFlags properly caught the limitation and
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presented the user with an appropriate error message.
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shFlags tries to support both the standard and enhanced versions of **getopt**.
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As each responds differently, and not everything is supported on the standard
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version, some unit tests will be skipped (i.e. ASSERTS will not be thrown) when
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the standard version of **getopt** is detected. The reason being that there is
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no point testing for functionality that is positively known not to exist. A
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tally of skipped tests will be kept for later reference.
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To see the test results for the various OSes tested, please visit
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http://forestent.com/projects/shflags/testresults/.
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Standard vs Enhanced getopt
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Here is a matrix of the supported features of the various **getopt** variants.
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+-------------------------+---+---+
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|Feature |std|enh|
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+=========================+===+===+
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|short option names | Y | Y |
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|long option names | N | Y |
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|spaces in string options | N | Y |
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+-------------------------+---+---+
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Known Issues
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The **getopt** version provided by default with all versions of Mac OS X (up to
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and including 10.5.5) is the standard version. As such, only short flags are
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supported.
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The **getopt** version provided by default with all versions of Solaris (up to
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and including Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris) is the standard version. As such,
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only short flags are supported.
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Workarounds
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The Zsh shell requires the ``shwordsplit`` option to be set, and the special
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``FLAGS_PARENT`` variable must be defined.
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