Re: gengetopt, anyone?

[Simon Josefsson]

Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> Has anyone else any experience with it?

I have used it in libidn, gsasl and a few other projects since well over
5 years.  I have been quite happy with it.

The biggest concern I have had is that the auto-generated --help screen
is impossible to fine-tune and it doesn't look as good as I want it to.

For Libidn, I have given up on using the auto-generated --help output
and instead wrote a custom function for displaying it.  For gsasl I
still use the auto-generated screen, mostly due to the much larger
amount of parameters.

One of the things I want to go away is that it prints the project name
and version as the first line of --help, I think there is no point in
having that there (there is --version after all) and I would prefer a
terse Usage:-line instead.

/Simon