Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes: > Do you have some examples of complex usage of Getopt::Long::Descriptive > by the way? I had a stab at rewriting lintian's option parsing and for > sometimes I cannot find the way to do it with G::L::Descriptive.
I don't... I don't think we've tried to do anything complicated. In particular, it doesn't look like it supports Getopt::Long's ability to insert subs into the option parsing or otherwise discover the order in which the options were given. >> Oh, that's kind of annoying. Although we conventionally ommitted the >> Usage: for subsequent lines anyway and just said: >> >> Usage: lintian-info ... >> lintian-info --annotate >> lintian-info --tags ... > That is the way I wanted to write it, but even "\n\t" is "two or more > spaces" and gets translated to " " resulting in: > Usage: lintian-info ... lintian-info --annotate [... and so on] > i.e. one long unreadable line. Oh, sorry, I misread. Yes, indeed, that's quite annoying! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sj329ekh....@windlord.stanford.edu
