what if we put everything in one binary? about openseachest

[xahmad]

Hi @Artoria2e5

Thanks for submitting the issue. There are a few things involved in it.

But your overall premise of one tool vs multiple tools is covered in this on going poll and discussion here:
#106

If you agree that the discussion is a better place to carry forward the pros and cons of single vs multiple binaries, please close this issue & add your comments there.

The specific concerns you have with getopts & strcmp, should be separated out as issues that need code improvements.

[Artoria2e5]

hah! Of course I shouldve checked the discussions.

[vonericsen]

I've cleaned up that extremely old and long irrelevant comment on optional arguments.
I don't remember the details at this point, but as the code was being developed and ported to some platform the macro for optional arguments was not supported on some system we were trying to support at the time, which is when that comment was added. That was probably a comment from 10 years ago at this point.

I agree with @xahmad about creating issues for these other getopt parsing issues so we can look into how to work on them.