Re: Simplifying command line parsing with Genparse

[Jim Meyering]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Genparse looks promising.
>> I like the examples.  But there are almost 100 programs in the
>> coreutils.  If genparse can really handle all of those use cases
>> without causing any significant degradation in the tools, then
>> it will be hard to object.
>
> There's also argp, which is part of glibc and also provided by gnulib.

Of course.  And my "If ..." statement above applies equally well to it.
If we ever find someone with enough motivation and perseverance to make
one of those tools satisfy my requirements, maybe that will be
a sufficiently compelling case to convert the coreutils.