From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-06-05T02:35:24+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 26128-26222 (Re: ropt/optparse)

Aredridel wrote:
> >   Masahiro Tomita claimed that ruby should not warn when loading
> >   getopts, with $VERBOSE=false.  Matz agreed with him.  In addition,
> >   WATANABE Hirofumi said that optparse.rb is too diffucult to use,
> >   he recommended to bandle ropt instead.  For details of ropt, refer
> >   RAA:
> >
> >     http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ropt/
>
> My first thought is that the optparse API is much nicer -- it could be
> simplified slightly without losing anything, but ropt looks more
> difficult, even if it is more succinct.
>
> Ari

I concur.  Folks would do well to take a look at Perl's Getopt::Std and
Getopt::Long (or elsewhere) to see how they do things instead of
reinventing a very old wheel.  And no, Ruby's GetoptLong is not where
it should be.

Regards,

Dan