From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2005-06-25T07:31:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Application-0.6.0

* Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> [2005-06-25 05:58:51 +0900]:

> 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.

Both are good suggestions. Thanks.
Using that, I would make the following equivalent:

  class App < CommandLine::BasicApplication
    standard_options
  end

  class App < CommandLine::Application
  end

The is nice because I don't have to figure out a way to 
let the user remove options.

-- 
Jim Freeze