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After writing hand-crafted command line option parsers, then switching to getopt(), then popt, and sometimes libconfuse I have a sack full of dissatisfaction and nearly an aversion to writing easy-to-use command line tools.
However, GNU gengetopt changed all that:
- it's easy to use with a powerful grammar that covers nearly all use cases
- it's portable because it's just a code generator and the C code produced is highly portable
- it doesn't clutter your binaries with disgusting dependencies in your binaries (ever needed a static libpopt because you love static linking?)
- it's maintained and it's GNU so I guess it will be around for at least a little while
Beside all the praise I want to utter some criticism as well: I found myself doing ugly hacks to incorporate a licence string upon --version, and custom multi-line usage strings are not really well supported either. But that might change in the future, Lorenzo Bettini, the current maintainer, is open for discussions and contributions.
Most Recent Reviews
After writing hand-crafted command line option parsers, then switching to getopt(), then popt, and sometimes libconfuse I have a sack full of dissatisfaction and nearly an aversion to writing easy-to-use command line tools.
However, GNU gengetopt changed all that:
- it's easy to use with a powerful grammar that covers nearly all use cases
- it's portable because it's just a code generator and the C code produced is highly portable
- it doesn't clutter your binaries with disgusting dependencies in your binaries (ever needed a static libpopt because you love static linking?)
- it's maintained and it's GNU so I guess it will be around for at least a little while
Beside all the praise I want to utter some criticism as well: I found myself doing ugly hacks to incorporate a licence string upon --version, and custom multi-line usage strings are not really well supported either. But that might change in the future, Lorenzo Bettini, the current maintainer, is open for discussions and contributions.