[getopt-sig] The bake-off

[holger@trillke.net]

[Greg Ward Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:58:37AM -0400]
> On 30 May 2002, holger@trillke.net said:
> > i came in late to the SIG but it appears that in the last two or three
> > month discussion was non-existent. The original SIG-people seem
> > to agree on Optik so i respectfully stay out of their way.
> 
> If you are referring to your proposal of 9 April in this post:
> 
>   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/getopt-sig/2002-April/000121.html
> 
> then here's my belated reaction: too clever and too implicit.  I like
> the fact that Python enables code inspection, but I think relying on it
> for everyday work like option-parsing is just wrong.  If you really,
> really want to promote your proposal, then 1) how about an
> implementation, and 2) supply an entry for the bake-off at
>                 
>   http://www.python.org/sigs/getopt-sig/compare.html
> 
> I'm pretty sure that I'll still prefer Optik, though.

thanks! I understand the criticism. Bear in mind though that
i was *not* suggesting an alternative to Optik. 

the idea was to make it *even cheaper* to write cmdline-tools
with a rich interface. The basic idea is to construct a 'namespace'-mapping
between the shell-cmdline and a python function (or class). I suggested to
use Optik as the backend for this. I was (and probably still am <wink>) 
willing to implement this but it is difficult if there is no feedback :-)

regards,

    holger