[stdlib-sig] Maintenance of optparse

[Armin Ronacher]

Hi,

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> This one doesn't. This is a kind of "you are either with me, or against
> me" argument. While I would favour improving optparse over including
> argparse, I don't think we can commit to never include argparse, just
> because you asked for it.
I can see strong disagreement with me here which is why I would love to
change my point to "I would only *continue* to maintain optparse is
argparse does not end up in the standard library".  If both end up
there, maintenance from my side ends.


Regards,
Armin