Arg Commands

[alexfalkowski]

Hi,

Would it be possible to set-up arguments as commands like in linux. For example "apt-get install" and then the command can have options (which you have already), though it would be nice if the long version of the options could be treated with a -- rather than -.

You can look at http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get to see what I mean.

Regards,
Alex

[alexfalkowski]

Any thoughts on this?

[adamabdelhamed]

I'm not sure if this is a dumb question, but what is the significance/benefit of the two dashes?

[alexfalkowski]

Not a dumb question at all. It is all to do with standards you can read more about this

http://superuser.com/questions/372203/whats-the-difference-between-one-dash-and-two-dashes-for-command-prompt-paramet (look at the third post)

The reason I want it is that the tool is supported on OSX and hopefully linux. This is their standard.

[adamabdelhamed]

I want to confirm before I start coding. If there was an attribute with usage like this:

[ArgLongVersion("my-long-version")]

And it let you also use the syntax --my-long-version=value would that do the trick?

[alexfalkowski]

That looks fine :)

[adamabdelhamed]

Great. I have it mostly coded. I'll write a few tests and probably push it out Monday morning (US Pacific).

A few notes on what I've built:
- It will support multiple long versions per argument since it looks like that's common from the examples you've sent.
- It will show up via ArgUsage.GetUsage() so the documentation will reflect these aliases.

[alexfalkowski]

That will be great looking forward to it.

[adamabdelhamed]

Sorry this isn't in yet. It should be in sometime this week.

[alexfalkowski]

Thanks mate :)

[adamabdelhamed]

Any feedback on this one? Is it working as you expected?

[alexfalkowski]

So far so good mate.