On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 3:46 AM, David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 10:11:36AM -0400, Samuel Lijin wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 6:24 AM, David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Meld 3.16.0 requires a "=" in the --output argument, as it uses >> > a simple hand-rolled command-line parser. >> > >> > Newer versions of Meld (3.16.4, and possibly earlier) use >> > optpaarse, which accepts either "--output <file>" or >> > "--output=<file>". > > Junio, there's an optpaarse -> optparse typo in the commit message > here in case you want to fix that up. > >> >> Do older versions also support both? > > No. When the "--output" option was first added (3.16.0, or possibly > earlier) it used the simpler parser that does not undertand the > "--output <filename>" form. > > Much older versions didn't support "--output" at all, so we don't have > to worry about them since we already use the "--output" flag > selectively based on whether or not it's supported. It sounds like this patch would break versions of Meld that use the hand-rolled parser, then.