digitalmars.D.announce - argparse version 1.0.0
- Andrey Zherikov (14/14) Jun 09 2022 Hi everyone,
- Vladimir Panteleev (9/15) Jun 10 2022 Congratulations on the release. Though there's a good number of
- Andrey Zherikov (7/15) Jun 10 2022 I looked at them when I started this project and they didn't
- Vladimir Panteleev (9/26) Jun 10 2022 Glad you asked! I use an approach similar to the one here, with
- Andrey Zherikov (7/15) Jun 10 2022 :-D
- SealabJaster (5/11) Jun 11 2022 Assuming you're talking about your time with JCLI then yeah,
- Andrey Zherikov (2/4) Jun 11 2022 Are you disappointed with jcli? Why? It's pretty good.
- Jordan Wilson (6/10) Jun 11 2022 I believe SealabJaster was using a bit of self-deprecating humor;
Hi everyone, I'm glad to announce first major version of [argparse](https://code.dlang.org/packages/argparse) - a library for creating command line interface. It took some time to figure out public API of this library and I believe it's mature enough for the major version. If you don't know what argparse does, here is not complete list of features (see full list in [readme](https://github.com/andrey-zherikov/argparse#readme)): - Positional arguments, short and long options - Argument groups - Subcommands - Help text generation - Shell completion
Jun 09 2022
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 at 19:08:16 UTC, Andrey Zherikov wrote:Hi everyone, I'm glad to announce first major version of [argparse](https://code.dlang.org/packages/argparse) - a library for creating command line interface. It took some time to figure out public API of this library and I believe it's mature enough for the major version.Congratulations on the release. Though there's a good number of libraries for this task in D already, this solution looks very complete. I was wondering if you ran into any strong reasons for describing the arguments as a struct, rather than, well, function arguments. I have had good success so far with the latter, which has the benefit of being succinct: https://github.com/CyberShadow/btdu/blob/116d190079ca77d61383eb738defa4318d5a1e5f/source/btdu/main.d#L59
Jun 10 2022
On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 09:20:24 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:Congratulations on the release. Though there's a good number of libraries for this task in D already, this solution looks very complete.I looked at them when I started this project and they didn't provide complete set of features I was looking for. That was the main reason to start this work.I was wondering if you ran into any strong reasons for describing the arguments as a struct, rather than, well, function arguments. I have had good success so far with the latter, which has the benefit of being succinct: https://github.com/CyberShadow/btdu/blob/116d190079ca77d61383eb738defa4318d5a1e5f/source/btdu/main.d#L59This is an interesting approach. I think they are equivalent for simple cases but how would you model subcommands with common arguments for all of them?
Jun 10 2022
On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 14:14:27 UTC, Andrey Zherikov wrote:On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 09:20:24 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:I invoke https://xkcd.com/927/ ! :)Congratulations on the release. Though there's a good number of libraries for this task in D already, this solution looks very complete.I looked at them when I started this project and they didn't provide complete set of features I was looking for. That was the main reason to start this work.Glad you asked! I use an approach similar to the one here, with commands in a struct. The common arguments are parsed before invoking the command. https://github.com/CyberShadow/steamkeyactivator/blob/144d322ecee65f4f536e5fd4141837e51d61a27a/activator.d#L142 When only some commands need to share some arguments, you can put them in a tuple. https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger/blob/7c7dd167aea2214d594bab932ea4e41e5f0a357a/digger.d#L34I was wondering if you ran into any strong reasons for describing the arguments as a struct, rather than, well, function arguments. I have had good success so far with the latter, which has the benefit of being succinct: https://github.com/CyberShadow/btdu/blob/116d190079ca77d61383eb738defa4318d5a1e5f/source/btdu/main.d#L59This is an interesting approach. I think they are equivalent for simple cases but how would you model subcommands with common arguments for all of them?
Jun 10 2022
On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 14:20:15 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:I invoke https://xkcd.com/927/ ! :):-D I tried to improve one of the existing libs but it didn't go well enough.Glad you asked! I use an approach similar to the one here, with commands in a struct. The common arguments are parsed before invoking the command. https://github.com/CyberShadow/steamkeyactivator/blob/144d322ecee65f4f536e5fd4141837e51d61a27a/activator.d#L142 When only some commands need to share some arguments, you can put them in a tuple. https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger/blob/7c7dd167aea2214d594bab932ea4e41e5f0a357a/digger.d#L34Now you have both approaches: parsing into struct with members and parsing into function arguments. Why do we need two if one is enough?
Jun 10 2022
On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 15:57:40 UTC, Andrey Zherikov wrote:On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 14:20:15 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:Assuming you're talking about your time with JCLI then yeah, sorry. If it's any consolation, there's yet another person trying to use the library that I'm currently disapointing ;^)I invoke https://xkcd.com/927/ ! :):-D I tried to improve one of the existing libs but it didn't go well enough.
Jun 11 2022
On Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 08:04:14 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:If it's any consolation, there's yet another person trying to use the library that I'm currently disapointing ;^)Are you disappointed with jcli? Why? It's pretty good.
Jun 11 2022
Jordan Wilson <wilsonjord gmail.com> On Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 14:28:02 UTC, Andrey Zherikov wrote:On Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 08:04:14 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:I believe SealabJaster was using a bit of self-deprecating humor; I don't believe he himself is disappointed in his library (well, no more than the usual amount of regret and loathing any sensible library writer has in their work...) JordanIf it's any consolation, there's yet another person trying to use the library that I'm currently disapointing ;^)Are you disappointed with jcli? Why? It's pretty good.
Jun 11 2022