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Support for --help and --version arguments #20

Closed Hunter-Github closed 8 years ago

Hunter-Github commented 8 years ago

Rationale: to be standard-compliant and discoverable.

sanketplus commented 8 years ago

and also -v or --verbose

I came here to open a new issue for these options and already found this one by @Hunter-Github :sweat_smile:

Would like to work in it if you think it should be in here @p-e-w :grin:

p-e-w commented 8 years ago

Simplicity is a virtue, and parsing command line arguments just to support --version is definitely overkill. "Help" can be found by running maybe without arguments. maybe is "verbose" by default.

If maybe ever needs command line arguments that actually do something (I hope not), I will surely add --version and --help as well. Until then, no.

Hunter-Github commented 8 years ago

@p-e-w - do you mind putting wontfix tag on the issue, then?

For reference: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLine-Interfaces.html

p-e-w commented 8 years ago

Reopening.

I did not say I won't add --version and --help. What I said is that supporting these two arguments alone does not justify adding command line parsing. Currently, command line interface standards don't apply to maybe because maybe does not have a command line interface. If it ever gets one, these two arguments will surely be supported.

p-e-w commented 8 years ago

Simple command line parsing has now been added, supporting both --help and --version.