00JCIV00 / cova

Commands, Options, Values, Arguments. A simple yet robust cross-platform command line argument parsing library for Zig.

https://00jciv00.github.io/cova/

MIT License

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v0.9.0-beta #48

Closed 00JCIV00 closed 11 months ago

00JCIV00 commented 11 months ago

Update Notes

v0.9.0

New Features

Implemented Argument Groups to help organize Arguments for Usage/Help messages and analysis.
Implemented Aliases for Commands & Options and Value Child Types.
Added more methods to make analyzing Arguments even easier.
Added customizable Callback Functions and new Formatting options for Usage/Help messages.
Implemented Mandatory Options with the new mandatory field.
Implemented Option Termination which is configurable under cova.ParseConfig.
Revamped the handling of Values with an Enum Child Type to make them seamless to work with.
Revamped Conversions for fields w/ default values.
Tested on additional platforms.
Updated Installation to use the new zig fetch --save.
Updated the Docs and Guides with more features and examples.

Breaking

New global_ and child_type_ prefixes for certain fields.
Added Allocator parameter requirement for all Callback Functions.

Fixes & Optimizations

Fixed bug with Long Option parsing.
Fixed bug with Boolean Value parsing.
Fixed Alignment Issue on ARM devices.
Fixed bug with Command.Custom.getVals().
Fixed bug with Command.Custom.to() parsing.
Fixed Zig removal of meta.trait.
Fixed Zig "local variable is never mutated" errors.
Removed several unnecessary, erroneous uses of const and @constCast().
Optimized the default size of the Value.Generic Union and added customization options allowing for much smaller binaries.
Optimized parts of Argument Initialization/De-initialization.