>>>>> "Tom" == Thomas Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> JArgs is a good choice for argument support for a few reasons: it is Tom> very small, being a single source file, it is released under the Tom> modified BSD license, it has a nice API that makes sense to in the Tom> Java language and it supports GNU-style argument parsing. This sounds great. Tom> For now I've attached jargs.tar.gz separately because I Tom> didn't want to create the directory in external until I'd received Tom> comments. The JArgs classes can't end up in glibj.zip -- that will mess with programs that want to load these classes via a non-bootstrap class loader. So, they have to go in the tools zip. But that may mean making a new tools/external directory, since I don't think the current build setup will let you do it with jargs in the top-level 'external'. Tom> Whatever form it takes I believe we should have a GNU-style argument Tom> parser in GNU Classpath for general use. JArgs could stand a couple improvements; I'm thinking about auto-generating --help. But maybe we could do those as a layer on top of it. Tom
