From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-06-25T05:58:51+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Application-0.6.0

On Friday 24 June 2005 04:04 pm, Jim Freeze wrote:
> > * make a certain set of options enabled by default: man page,
> > version, usage, etc. �That way all applications written in this
> > framework will immediately have this commonality. �And then
> > have a way for the application class to delete this
> > functionality if it isn't wanted for some strange reason.
>
> Hmm, haven't thought about that, but sounds reasonable.

One way to handle this is to provide a CommandLine::BasicApplication with no 
defaults and also CommandLine::Application with the mentioned goodies.  This 
allows people to fall back to a bare bones version with little effort.

Another approach is to provide additional functionality in modules (or 
something module-like).  Include a module and get several related features.

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