Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A question regarding cmdargs package
This makes me curious. What's the use case where you want to allow the user to pass arguments on the command line, but you don't want that user to be able to use '--help' to find out what arguments may be passed? When you don't want to bother defining the help options/descriptions? :p (alternatively, you may wish to provide a more full-featured version like what darcs does by using a pager) You can already do this with CmdArgs. If you use cmdArgsMode/process it returns a structure populated to say what to do next (i.e. display a help message), but you are welcome to do something different, or do what it says in a different way. However, I can see some people might want to remove help entirely, so I'll try and find a balance. Thanks, Neil ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A question regarding cmdargs package
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 12.10.2010, 16:42 +1100 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic: On 12 October 2010 16:32, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: This makes me curious. What's the use case where you want to allow the user to pass arguments on the command line, but you don't want that user to be able to use '--help' to find out what arguments may be passed? When you don't want to bother defining the help options/descriptions? :p note that people expect cmd --help to at least do nothing. So if your program is called launchMissiles, please make it at least spit out a message like your evil dictator was too lazy to write a help message when it is called with --help. (That is if you are sharing your program. Not sure if you should share launchMissiles at all.) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner e-Mail: m...@joachim-breitner.de Homepage: http://www.joachim-breitner.de ICQ#: 74513189 Jabber-ID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A question regarding cmdargs package
Hi Ben, How can I disable the standard arguments 'help' and 'version'? In general I suggest you email the author of the cmdargs package directly, as well as cc'ing the mailing list (otherwise the author might miss this message, as I did!) In CmdArgs there is currently no way to suppress either --help or --version, but I am currently reviewing a patch (from you!) and expect that the next version will have both these features. The hard part is making sure the defaults match what people expect and that the options to modify the behaviour are discoverable and natural, but I'm sure I'll find something. Thanks, Neil If you're not fully committed to the cmdargs package, you might try my package 'console-program' instead http://hackage.haskell.org/package/console-program. It does not have built-in --help or --version functionality. (There is a function 'showUsage' that takes the description of the command/option structure of your program, and prints --help style usage information, but you use this at your own discretion.) Thanks, looks good. I will certainly try it out. Cheers Ben ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A question regarding cmdargs package
On 11/10/10 22:04, Neil Mitchell wrote: Hi Ben, How can I disable the standard arguments 'help' and 'version'? In general I suggest you email the author of the cmdargs package directly, as well as cc'ing the mailing list (otherwise the author might miss this message, as I did!) In CmdArgs there is currently no way to suppress either --help or --version, but I am currently reviewing a patch (from you!) and expect that the next version will have both these features. The hard part is making sure the defaults match what people expect and that the options to modify the behaviour are discoverable and natural, but I'm sure I'll find something. This makes me curious. What's the use case where you want to allow the user to pass arguments on the command line, but you don't want that user to be able to use '--help' to find out what arguments may be passed? /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A question regarding cmdargs package
On 12 October 2010 16:32, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: This makes me curious. What's the use case where you want to allow the user to pass arguments on the command line, but you don't want that user to be able to use '--help' to find out what arguments may be passed? When you don't want to bother defining the help options/descriptions? :p (alternatively, you may wish to provide a more full-featured version like what darcs does by using a pager) -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Re: A question regarding cmdargs package
Arie Peterson wrote: On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:18:08 +0200, Ben Franksen ben.frank...@online.de wrote: How can I disable the standard arguments 'help' and 'version'? If you're not fully committed to the cmdargs package, you might try my package 'console-program' instead http://hackage.haskell.org/package/console-program. It does not have built-in --help or --version functionality. (There is a function 'showUsage' that takes the description of the command/option structure of your program, and prints --help style usage information, but you use this at your own discretion.) Thanks, looks good. I will certainly try it out. Cheers Ben ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
