State of docopt for python?

[guettli]

The last update on pypi is five years ago: https://pypi.org/project/docopt/#history

Please tell us the state of the project: Is it mature or abandoned?

[Grokzen]

@guettli Speaking from personal experience here. The project itself is mature/stable/good to use in anything that you want. Yes the project is not really updated latley, but the project can still be used as it is described in the docs and on the website and you can still do anything you like within the code to build any cli you want. I have not found a better fork or another implementation or code base that does the same thing as docopt that i want to switch to. I am not going back to the ones that is provided in the python std lib tho so i will ues docopt until either the stdlib provides sometihng better, or someone else makes a fork of this repo and maintains it again.

[TylerTemp]

Forked & maintaining: docopt-ng

Similar implementation: docpie

And yeah I agree that docopt need to update its status, as there are indeed bugs exist.

[tsturzl]

@Grokzen I have come across use cases where docopt is not suitable. I've overall stopped using it entirely, because I know it won't grow with my project ever because basically no PRs will get merged and the maintainers attitude about it is quite frankly "bad" to put it lightly. As @TylerTemp stated there are indeed bugs, and while its considered "feature complete", I have first hand experience that there are limits to it's use case. You can see docopt-ng has addressed many of these, largely because it sorted through a massive amount of the PRs opened on this project. I'd largely consider this project deprecated, and I wouldn't use it for anything you expect to maintain after the initial implementation.