Perfectionist's Checklist

[abitrolly]

Here are some things that I found internally unsatisfying in v2.

• [ ] I want to turn off help command
• [ ] I want App.Name to be AppName to make it clear it is only used in help formatting
• [x] No need to say that default for help is false (--help, -h show help (default: false))

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• [x] Don't say that my program accepts arguments when it doesn't (sub add [command options] [arguments...])
• [x] Don't say subcommand accepts options when it doesn't (sub add [command options] [arguments...])
• [x] Fail with an error if user supplies arguments that are not supported

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To be expanded..

• [ ] Allow Name: "--password" and Name: "-p, --password" to simplify grep for looking where options are defined
• [x] Make subcommand -h take priority over missing required flag on level above

What problem does this solve?

Reaching inner peace.

[dearchap]

@abitrolly I agree with all of these points. In fact these have been raised before see

https://github.com/urfave/cli/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aarea%2Fv3

However at this point v2 is in maintenance mode so no new features/functionality. Most if not all of your issues are slated to be fixed in v3. Why v3 you say ? We wanted to take the most requested features and create a new version of the software . As part of this we've rewritten the flag code to use generics so that feature addition is localized and more manageable than it is currently. For example see the recent changes for persistent flags in v3. It required an update to just 4 files vs currently we would have to update almost 15-20 files. So code maintenance is better . That being said are you up for these changes coming to v3?

[abitrolly]

I don't understand generics, and I don't know how much time it will be needed for me to get it, but when v3 is ready to be used, I can easily go through this checklist to see if it works for me.

[abitrolly]

@dearchap renamed feature request template to point to v3 https://github.com/urfave/cli/pull/1613

[dearchap]

Thanks @abitrolly