Hello

In my experience as a c/c++ programmer I've seen a lot of quick and dirty, primitive command line parsing implementations. Time and time again because they needed something that compiles on both linux(gcc) and windows(msvc) and avoid using external libraries.

Even very simple console application often needs some command line parsing.

Could one, simple, implementation be part of phobos, providing portability?

Some references I found:

- Derick Eddington 30 May 2005 "optparse.d -- good enough to be std.optparse?"
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/553.html

- Daniel Keep 15 April 2006 "optparse module"
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/36768.html

- doost dsource project
http://www.dsource.org/projects/doost/browser/trunk/doost/program_options

- DDL dsource project
http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl/browser/trunk/utils/ArgParser.d

Greets

Joris

JP wrote:
> Hello
> 
> In my experience as a c/c++ programmer I've seen a lot of quick and dirty, primitive command line parsing implementations. Time and time again because they needed something that compiles on both linux(gcc) and windows(msvc) and avoid using external libraries.
> 
> Even very simple console application often needs some command line parsing.
> 
> Could one, simple, implementation be part of phobos, providing portability?
> 
> Some references I found:
> 
> - Derick Eddington 30 May 2005 "optparse.d -- good enough to be std.optparse?"
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/553.html
> 
> - Daniel Keep 15 April 2006 "optparse module"
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/36768.html
> 
> - doost dsource project
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/doost/browser/trunk/doost/program_options
> 
> - DDL dsource project
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl/browser/trunk/utils/ArgParser.d
> 
> Greets
> 
> Joris

Another reference:

- Juanjo Álvarez Martínez
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?Phobos/PosixGetOpt