[vlc-devel] vlc: svn commit r25242 (damienf)

[Damien Fouilleul]

Remi,

For once in your life, please give me a practical answer to what we  
really have to gain by removing argv[0] and please leave off dogmatic  
theories about being right or wrong.

I only see advantages, the only constructive counter argument I got so  
far is that it could confuse users which I believe can be fixed with  
proper documentation (if anything, it keeps the construct similar to  
main(), which should be less confusing by the way)

by providing a user configurable argv[0], a user can put a fully  
qualified pathname, which is pre-prepended to modules search paths, as  
it was done previously. Moreover, language bindings can also put a  
meaningful names such as "python" or "java", which can only improve  
debug readability.

Damien

On 21 Feb 2008, at 18:12, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

> Le Thursday 21 February 2008 19:38:21 Damien Fouilleul, vous avez  
> écrit :
>> you obviously don't read the forums very often. i've leveraged the  
>> use
>> of argv[0] as per request from multiple users from the user who  
>> wanted
>> to be able to bundle mozilla and activex and their plugins easily.
>
> Yeah, and you obviously don't try to run the installed (stable) vlc  
> from a
> parent directory of vlc development tree. Because this breaks it.  
> Not talking
> about the speed issue.
>
> That a user asks for something does not automatically mean it's a  
> good idea.
>
>>> Since when are software libraries suppose to use argv[0] anyway?
>>> I've not
>>> bothered to remove it from the whole internal LibVLC command line
>>> parsing
>>> flow, perhaps. That surely did not mean we intended to restore the
>>> misfeature later on.
>>
>> this comment is about as interesting as saying since when chickens
>> have teeth.
>
> Perhaps. It was your argument anyway.
>
> -- 
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> http://www.remlab.net/
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