[vdr] Re: plugin load and --help

[Udo Richter]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Udo Richter wrote:
>> While we're at --help and plugins:
>> There is no way how a plugin can detect whether it was loaded 
>> regularly or just for displaying --help or --version. In the latter 
>> cases, ProcessArgs() will be called with empty parameters and cannot 
>> fail because it is missing a parameter. If it does fail, VDR stops 
>> loading plugins and shows --help and --version only for plugins loaded 
>> before the failed one.
>>
>> (do we need to call ProcessArgs() at all for --help/--version?)
> 
> What's the point in adding -P parameters to a 'vdr --help'
> call, anyway?

Exactly my point...

Ok, an example. Load plugin foo, with parameter REQUIRED:

   > vdr -P "foo REQUIRED"

This works. This is supposed to not work:

   > vdr -P "foo"
   error: foo requires an argument

But then this doesn't work either:

   > vdr --version
   vdr (1.3.45) - The Video Disk Recorder
   error: foo requires an argument

Cheers,

Udo