[getopt-sig] Re: [optik] ANNOUNCE: getopt-sig created

[Patrick Callahan]

Its good to see that this is going to get some discussion.  I think Greg 
Ward's optik implementation is quite clear and focused.  I've not used the 
other two yet.

I'm wondering a first step would be to develop a list of what differentiates 
optik, arglist.py and Russ Cox's Plan9 style implementation.

I hope the principal authors of the (so far) three competing packages can put 
their heads together and come up with a merger of the best features of all 
three for inclusion in Python 2.3  If it turns out there's more than one 
distinct set of functionality that needs to be defined under the general 
heading of "option parsing".  I think that would be ok too.

- Pat Callahan