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List:       gtk-devel
Subject:    Re: Functional programming with GLib
From:       Matthias Clasen <matthias.clasen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-05-09 18:57:28
Message-ID: CAFwd_vBvBhVUFMqXYsFUe+p7bWzNeWzwe1+iixMhmoDpTjs5oA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 4:59 AM, Tristan Van Berkom <
tristan.vanberkom@codethink.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Some things that I'm finding important for CLI apps:
>
> A.) Automatic generation of man pages and similar documentation,
>     especially generating separate man pages for each separate sub
>     command.
>
>     I'm not even sure, do we have this already ?
>

I fail to see the value of a man page that just repeats what --help already
tells me.  Why is this useful ?


> B.) Built-in support for bash completions, allowing optional overrides
>     for the application to implement custom completion suggestions
>     for selected options/arguments.
>

This on the other hand, is very useful. But hard to do in a way that is
generic enough for all possible styles of
commandline interface that people have built with GOption. Do you have a
suggestion for this ?

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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 4:59 AM, Tristan Van Berkom <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:tristan.vanberkom@codethink.co.uk" \
target="_blank">tristan.vanberkom@codethink.co.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div \
class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br> Some \
things that I&#39;m finding important for CLI apps:<br> <br>
A.) Automatic generation of man pages and similar documentation,<br>
      especially generating separate man pages for each separate sub<br>
      command.<br>
<br>
      I&#39;m not even sure, do we have this already \
?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I fail to see the value of a man page that just \
repeats what --help already tells me.   Why is this useful ?<br><br></div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br>
B.) Built-in support for bash completions, allowing optional overrides<br>
      for the application to implement custom completion suggestions<br>
      for selected options/arguments.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This on the \
other hand, is very useful. But hard to do in a way that is generic enough for all \
possible styles of<br>commandline interface that people have built with GOption. Do \
you have a suggestion for this ?<br></div></div></div></div>



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