Re: gengetopt open issues

Hi

I'm afraid, but I'm not able to deal with (complex) issues by email 
anymore...  I've lots of emails also by other projects and in spite of 
group them I can't seem to get them organized...  tracking systems help 
developers to stay organized (especially when used in conjunction with 
eclipse-mylyn which I've been using recently)...

Organization by tasks seems to be the "productive" way to keep issues 
organized (and possibly solved sooner or later :)

cheers
	Lorenzo

On 09/14/2011 02:58 PM, Andre Noll wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
>
> First of all, it's great news to hear that you found the time to work
> on gengetopt development again.
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 10:27, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> Thus, I think we should use the tool at savannah to keep track of
>> issues;
>
> I don't think this is a good idea. If something was lost in your inbox,
> people will eventually send it again, at least if it is important
> enough to them ;)
>
> OTOH, bug trackers and ticket systems, like Wikis, tend to be "write
> only", i.e. nobody ever reads what other people wrote there before
> posting a bug report or feature request. Moreover there are people,
> including myself, who hate mousing around and learning how to use yet
> another "user-friendly" web-based system including its word-like web
> editor. Having to register before you can post is another barrier.
>
> That being said, here's what I am missing most in gengetopt:
>
> * A new ggo option that works just like "text" but adds the text only
>    to the output of --detailed-help and not to the short --help output.
>
> * Support for environment variables for the defaults of string options.
>    For example, the default location of a file might be inside the
>    user's home directory. So it would be nice if one could specify
>    the default value for a string option as "$HOME/.foorc" in the ggo
>    file. Of course $HOME has to be evaluated when the program runs
>    (rather than when gengetopt is executed).
>
> * Ranges. At least for int type options it would be nice to be able
>    to specify that the value of the given option must be in some
>    interval. In particular, gengetopt could generate code that checks
>    whether the given integer is positive.
>
> * Including ggo files from other ggo files. This is the least important
>    point, as one can easily do this manually, e.g. with m4.
>
> Regards
> Andre
>
>
>
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