When you say man page, do you mean as in the unix man command, or the ref guide page? I don't think we really need a man page. Has anyone asked for that?
On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 6:26 PM Gus Heck <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you mean by zero drift? > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 4:41 PM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> My preference is annotated code that generates both help output and man >> pages. Zero drift. Anywhere. >> >> Jan Høydahl >> >> > 14. okt. 2026 kl. 18:13 skrev Gus Heck <[email protected]>: >> > >> > Hmm, just noticed this thread, so I'm late to the party, but did >> anyone >> > look at DocOpt? http://docopt.org/ It's a system for generating the >> parser >> > from POSIX command help that would leave us with zero parsing/config >> code >> > to maintain. All we would need is to maintain the help file... >> > >> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 9:10 AM Eric Pugh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> The level of focus to make the new picocli backwards compatible has >> been >> >> really impressive, so I think swapping to the new Picocli makes a ton >> of >> >> sense. And if anyone finds an issue, or maybe uses a script, then >> they can >> >> use the fallback to commons-cli. >> >> >> >> +1 to flipping the switch in 10.2. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) >> > https://a.co/d/b2sZLD9 (my fantasy fiction book) >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > -- > http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) > https://a.co/d/b2sZLD9 (my fantasy fiction book) > -- http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) https://a.co/d/b2sZLD9 (my fantasy fiction book)
