[upforgrabs] Integrate Igor Lesik's getoptEx?

[Jens Mueller]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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.

Right. I'd like to have an easy way to define flags and let getopt do
the parsing.
I just rechecked the enhancement request and Igor updated it yesterday.
I will create a pull request making Igor the author.

Jens