Hello friends,
The curl command line parser is a custom parser that acts slightly different
than many other command line tools.
One particular difference is how arguments to long options are provided:
space-separated from the option itself. Like this when setting the user agent:
curl --user-agent curl-2000 https://example.com/
Many other command line tools instead uses the equals-sign-approach, where the
argument is instead specified immediately next to the flag like this:
curl --user-agent=curl-2000 https://example.com/
I am now proposing a PR for curl that makes it add support for the latter
syntax in addition to the previous, which then perhaps makes curl a bit more
aligned with the rest of the world: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17789
If we deem this fine, it might be merged for the 8.16.0 release (Sep 2025).
Since this would introduce support for a syntax that is not supported by older
curl versions, I would expect that not too many users will actually use this
command line style for the first few years until the new parser is in more
widespread use.
Thoughts?
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