[upforgrabs] Integrate Igor Lesik's getoptEx?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/15/11 11:43 AM, Jens Mueller wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Upon contacting him, Igor was kind enough to share the source of his
>> getoptEx module here:
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3780
>>
>> It's a simple improvement to getopt that adds a descriptive help
>> string for the program, and for each option adds one or more help
>> lines.
>>
>> Could someone work his code into an addition to std.getopt? I'm
>> thinking of keeping the same name and using overloading. Please
>> reply to this if you plan to work on this.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> I have already done this. Some time ago. I can create a pull request for
> his work.
> But I didn't like it much (too limited). That's why I wanted to extend
> it. But never found the time. getoptEx goes in the direction of
> something like gflags but it's still far away from it.
>
> Jens

If you could find a way to integrate that work without thwarting 
opportunity for future improvements, that would be great.

getopt is not gflags but should be a good backend to a possible 
gflags-like utility.


Andrei