From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-06-07T10:13:22+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 26128-26222 (Re: ropt/optparse)

Hi,

At Sun, 5 Jun 2005 00:35:11 +0900,
Aredridel wrote in [ruby-talk:144547]:
> >   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.

ropts also is nice enough as OO-style, and closer to getopts,
so I guess it would be one of good choices to port from
getopts.

-- 
Nobu Nakada