massive re-factor to have modes be based on module/extend vs. subclas…

…sing. NOT backward compat. note version bump.

Rakefile

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ task :gemspec do
 
           Gem::Specification::new do |spec|
             spec.name = #{ lib.inspect }
+            spec.description = 'a class factory and dsl for generating command line programs real quick'
             spec.version = #{ version.inspect }
             spec.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
             spec.summary = #{ lib.inspect }
@@ -77,8 +78,8 @@ task :gemspec do
 
             spec.has_rdoc = #{ has_rdoc.inspect }
             spec.test_files = #{ test_files.inspect }
-            spec.add_dependency 'fattr'
-            spec.add_dependency 'arrayfields'
+            spec.add_dependency 'fattr', '>= 1.0.3'
+            spec.add_dependency 'arrayfields', '>= 4.5.0'
 
             spec.extensions.push(*#{ extensions.inspect })
 

TODO

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 * figure out how to support '-' ??
 
-* clean up warnings under 'ruby -d'
+* clean up warnings under 'ruby -w'
 * error reporting weird for some errors
 
 ===============================================================================

lib/main.rb

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module Main
 #
 # top level constants
 #
-  Main::VERSION = '2.9.3' unless
+  Main::VERSION = '3.0.0' unless
     defined? Main::VERSION
   def self.version() Main::VERSION end
 
@@ -29,20 +29,7 @@ def self.libdir() Main::LIBDIR end
   end
 
   require 'fattr'
-  begin
-    version = Fattr.version
-    raise unless version[%r/^1\./] 
-  rescue
-    abort "main requires fattrs >= 1.0.3 - gem install fattr"
-  end
-
   require 'arrayfields'
-  begin
-    version = Arrayfields.version
-    raise unless version[%r/^4\./] 
-  rescue
-    abort "main requires arrayfields >= 4.5.0 - gem install arrayfields"
-  end
 #
 # main's own libs
 #
@@ -55,6 +42,7 @@ def self.libdir() Main::LIBDIR end
   require libdir + 'parameter'
   require libdir + 'getoptlong'
   require libdir + 'mode'
+  require libdir + 'dsl'
   require libdir + 'base'
   require libdir + 'factories'
 end