Bug#764621: perl: Please add support for Getopt::Long bundling_values or similar

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 06:31:33PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:

> I'd like to eventually unify them all by using Getopt::Long. But to
> support the above 6 (sane) variants for backward compatibility, I'd
> have to enable bundling, which I think is not a very good idea, as it's
> not future proof, because if users can bundle options then adding
> support for values to an existing option breaks those invocations.
> 
> Bundling values (for short options) should always be safe, but there's
> currently no way to only enable value bundling, which is what I'm missing.
> I guess I'll have to write my own option parser or Getopt::Long wrapper,
> due to only wanting to use modules and perl versions available from
> oldstable, but it'd be nice to be able to eventually get rid of it.
> 
> I'd like to have a new bundling_values option, that given the following
> option specifiers:
> 
>  o=s
>  x
>  y
> 
> would not allow any of:
> 
>  -xy -xovalue -xo value
> 
> only:
> 
>  -x -y -ovalue -o value
> 
> which are always safe and future proof.

Hi,

Upstream has released 2.43 which implements the new bundling_values
option. Please could you check to see whether this works for you?

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=101237

Thanks!
Dominic.