> The point here was not so much removing --help, but rather that I want to > have control over the 'standard' options (help,version,verbosity) in the > same way as for the rest. My program might not have a version, so why > offer --version? Or maybe I want a different name for it because the -V is > already used for something else, which I cannot change for backwards > compatibility. I might want another name for --help, for instance -h. The > standard -? does not work in all shells/configurations and --help might > look strange if all other options are of the one-dash-one-character sort. I > would also like to configure the help text for the standard options, for > instance for i18n or because I like starting with a lower case letter or...
That i18n is a fantastic argument - and one that really means cmdargs has no choice but to support all the attributes on help/version. > BTW another cool feature of an auto-magic option parsing lib is the GNU > standard "--" (arguments after this are not to be treated as options). cmdargs also supports this by default. Thanks, Neil _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
