Hi, On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:44:48AM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > >3. There is currently no way to *really* hide an option (so that it > >isn't even listed in --full-help). > > > >Two ways to implement such a feature spring to mind: a new command-line > >argument could be added to gengetopt that prevents it from adding > >--full-help entirely, or options could be tagged with a new keyword, > >like "really_hidden" that prevents them being a candidate for inclusion > >in the --full-help output. In fact, both these things could be added. > > > >But is the current design intentional? Would this facility be > >undesirable on the grounds that it would make the software less > >transparent to the user? > > > > gengetopt starts to have many command line arguments, and probably > many keywords... I guess it's hard to have a way to make all users > happy: anyone will want to have a complete control on the generated > code, but, being C, I think it's hard to achieve it... probably > another command line option would be preferable?
Wouldn't you want both? I.e., a way to exclude an option from --full-help *and* a command line option that prevents --full-help from being produced at all? It would be more flexible that way. Or are you concerned about the bloat? > Of course, if you can provide patches (and unit test cases) I'll be > happy to collaborate I'll get working on some patches. :o) -- Tim Marston ed.am _______________________________________________ Help-gengetopt mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gengetopt
