From: thefed <fedzor@...>
Date: 2008-01-09T06:46:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Trollop 1.7.1 released

What changes were made?

BTW, I LOVE trollop and use it exclusively.

On Jan 8, 2008, at 12:30 AM, William Morgan wrote:

> Trollop version 1.7.1 has been released!
>
> * <http://trollop.rubyforge.org>
>
> ## DESCRIPTION
>
> Trollop is YAFCLAP --- yet another fine commandline argument processor
> for Ruby. Trollop is designed to provide the maximal amount of GNU- 
> style
> argument processing in the minimum number of lines of code (for  
> you, the
> programmer).
>
> - Simple usage.
> - Sensible defaults. No tweaking necessary, much tweaking possible.
> - Support for long options, short options, short option bundling,
>   and automatic type validation and conversion.
> - Automatic help message generation, wrapped to current screen width.
> - Lots of unit tests.
>
> Synopsis
>
>   ###### simple ######
>
>   require 'trollop'
>   opts = Trollop::options do
>     opt :monkey, "Use monkey mode"
>     opt :goat, "Use goat mode", :default => true
>     opt :num_limbs, "Set number of limbs", :default => 4
>   end
>
>   p opts
>
>   ###### medium ######
>
>   require 'trollop'
>   opts = Trollop::options do
>     version "test 1.2.3 (c) 2007 William Morgan"
>     banner <<-EOS
>   Test is an awesome program that does something very, very important.
>
>   Usage:
>          test [options] <filenames>+
>   where [options] are:
>   EOS
>
>     opt :ignore, "Ignore incorrect values"
>     opt :file, "Extra data filename to read in, with a very long  
> option description like this one", :type => String
>     opt :volume, "Volume level", :default => 3.0
>     opt :iters, "Number of iterations", :default => 5
>   end
>   Trollop::die :volume, "must be non-negative" if opts[:volume] < 0
>   Trollop::die :file, "must exist" unless File.exist?(opts[:file])  
> if opts[:file]
>
> Changes:
>
> ## 1.7.1 / 2008-01-07
> * Documentation improvements
>
> * <http://trollop.rubyforge.org>
>
> -- 
> William <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net>
>