K 10 svn:author V 4 miwi K 8 svn:date V 27 2008-11-09T23:05:04.000000Z K 7 svn:log V 776 main.rb features the following: - unification of option, argument, keyword, and environment parameter parsing - auto generation of usage and help messages - support for mode/sub-commands - io redirection support - logging hooks using ruby's built-in logging mechanism - intelligent error handling and exit codes - use as dsl or library for building Main objects - parsing user defined ARGV and ENV - zero requirements for understanding the obtuse apis of any command line option parsers - leather pants In short main.rb aims to drastically lower the barrier to writing uniform command line applications. WWW: http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/main/ PR: ports/128664 Submitted by: Wen Heping END