From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-12-29T19:47:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Command-line option parsing

Eric J. Roode <sdn.girths00869@zoemail.net> wrote:
> "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote in
> news:41fiouF1e6diiU1@individual.net:
>
>> I used to use GetopLong in the beginning but switched to
>> OptionParser. Agreee, the documentation could be better but if you
>> look carefully at the example given in RDoc you get pretty much
>> everything you need. I'm not sure about a standard parser but my
>> impression was that OptionParser is more widely used.  But I may be
>> wrong here.
>
> I disagree about the example being all you need.

It seems to me that your posting pretty much confirms what I said: I didn't 
claim it's "all you need" but that it gets you pretty far, if you "look 
carefully". :-)  Admittedly it's not so easy for someone new to Ruby...

Kind regards

    robert