From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-06-05T02:45:35+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 26128-26222 (Re: ropt/optparse)

On 04 Jun 2005, at 08:35, 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.

What I like about optparse is that it is so simple to get a usage  
message out of it, and for files with many options, this is handy.

For files with very few options, optparse requires too much typing.

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