In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vladimir Prus wrote: > Vincent N. Virgilio wrote: >> FYI, xParam (sourceforge) seems to fulfill similar requirements. > > I had a brief look at the project before, and looked for another time now. > Are you sure that project called > "XParam - General-Purpose Object Serialization Framework for C++" > has the same requiremens and tools for command line processing? > > My opinion is that: > 1. It primarily aims at clases serialization. > 2. The command line part is not so powerfull. For example, it has single > syntax, AFAIKT, does not allow multiple assignment to the same variable, and > looks like the syntax of, say, list of values, is fixed. > > Am I missing something? > > - Volodya
I am not sure that the requirements are the same. I thought they might be similar, so threw the reference out there. Take it FWIW. No, you're not missing anything. Both points about the syntax are spot-on. However, xParam's redirection operator '@' (from a file) provides an alternative to multiple assignment. Initially I was put off by this, expecting that multiple assigment would be necessary or a just very convenient. Neither turned out to be the case. Now I'm getting along easily without it. I use xParam in an application which takes only the most primitive parameters from the command line. I haven't had to resort to redirection. Though I might, simply to make the (large) parameter structures more readable. Vince Virgilio _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
