Re: [help-gengetopt] Use argp for nicer output and more flexibility?

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Hi there

I don't know argp actually (could you please point me to some quick 
reference about it).

If you list what you would like from gengetopt generated code, I could 
try to implement it as soon as possible (e.g. how you'd like the output 
with --help, and so on).

I look forward to hearing from you

cheers
        Lorenzo

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using gengetopt in libidn but I'm considering moving to argp which
> IMHO is more flexible and generate nicer output.  E.g., help texts are
> flowed (no >80 column texts), parameters can be grouped in the --help
> output with some description text, generate --usage.  See glibc manual
> for the entire story.
>
> But then I would lose the nice code-generation idea in gengetopt, and
> the configuration file parser (which I don't need in libidn, but I
> need it in another project which currently uses argp).
>
> So it occurred to me that the best (from my point of view) would be to
> generate argp code given the gengetopt description file.  I'm not sure
> this could be implemented completely backwards compatible, or if that
> is even important, though.
>
> Code for the argp implementation would have to be included, since it
> isn't generally available on all platforms, but as it happen I'm
> currently working on making the libc argp implementation portable (as
> part of gnulib).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Before you ask, I don't volunteer to implement this in gengetopt. :) I
> am willing to work on any argp modifications that could be required
> though.


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