Affect usage description for a main program?

[schveiguy]

For a subcommand, you can affect the description by attributing the command with information.

But I want to just add a description for the whole program. Is that possible to do?

[andrey-zherikov]

Did you try Command attribute?

@(Command.Description("Description for the whole program"))
struct MainProgram
{
...
}

[schveiguy]

Does that work? Because I thought Command required a parameter of the program name. I tried Command().Description(...) and it failed to compile.

I'll check when I get a chance.

[schveiguy]

To be clearer, I want to use the automatic mechanism that detects the program name (I'm assuming from argv[0]) and uses that for the usage, but still provides a nice description.

My current implementation uses Command("foo").Description(...) and it works, where "foo" is the program name. This is OK if there is no other way, but I would prefer to be more DRY.

[andrey-zherikov]

It should work - if you don't specify command name then it's gonna use argv[0]. Let me know if it does not.

[andrey-zherikov]

I just checked with one of the examples - compilation failed. I'll fix it.

[andrey-zherikov]

@schveiguy I added this to example:

@(Command.Description("Description of main program"))
struct Program
{
...
}

[schveiguy]

Thanks!