package cmdliner

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Declarative definition of command line interfaces for OCaml

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cmdliner-0.9.6.tbz
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CHANGES.md.html

v0.9.6 2014-11-18 La Forclaz (VS)

  • Optional arguments. Invoke the printer on the default (absent) value only if needed, i.e. if help is shown. Strictly speaking an interface breaking change – for example if the absent value was lazy it would be forced on each run. This is no longer the case.

  • Parsed command line syntax: allow short flags to be specified together under a single dash, possibly ending with a short option. This allows to specify e.g. tar -xvzf archive.tgz or tar -xvzfarchive.tgz. Previously this resulted in an error, all the short flags had to be specified separately. Backward compatible in the sense that only more command lines are parsed. Thanks to Hugo Heuzard for the patch.

  • End user error message improvements using heuristics and edit distance search in the optional argument and sub command name spaces. Thanks to Hugo Heuzard for the patch.

  • Adds Arg.doc_{quote,alts,alts_enum}, documentation string helpers.

  • Adds the Term.eval_peek_opts function for advanced usage scenarios.

  • The function Arg.enum now raises Invalid_argument if the enumeration is empty.

  • Improves help paging behaviour on Windows. Thanks to Romain Bardou for the help.

v0.9.5 2014-07-04 Cambridge (UK)

  • Add variance annotation to Term.t. Thanks to Peter Zotov for suggesting.

  • Fix section name formatting in plain text output. Thanks to Mikhail Sobolev for reporting.

v0.9.4 2014-02-09 La Forclaz (VS)

  • Remove temporary files created for paged help. Thanks to Kaustuv Chaudhuri for the suggestion.

  • Avoid linking against Oo (was used to get program uuid).

  • Check the environment for $MANPAGER aswell. Thanks to Raphaël Proust for the patch.

  • OPAM friendly workflow and drop OASIS support.

v0.9.3 2013-01-04 La Forclaz (VS)

  • Allow user specified SYNOPSIS sections.

v0.9.2 2012-08-05 Lausanne

  • OASIS 0.3.0 support.

v0.9.1 2012-03-17 La Forclaz (VS)

  • OASIS support.

  • Fixed broken Arg.pos_right.

  • Variables $(tname) and $(mname) can be used in a term's man page to respectively refer to the term's name and the main term name.

  • Support for custom variable substitution in Manpage.print.

  • Adds Term.man_format, to facilitate the definition of help commands.

  • Rewrote the examples with a better and consistant style.

Incompatible API changes:

  • The signature of Term.eval and Term.eval_choice changed to make it more regular: the given term and its info must be tupled together even for the main term and the tuple order was swapped to make it consistent with the one used for arguments.

v0.9.0 2011-05-27 Lausanne

  • First release.

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