Anyone want to adopt Getopt::Auto?

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Aristotle Pagaltzis - 18 Jun 2009 03:23 GMT

I took over [this module][1] from Simon Cozens nearly 5 years ago
when [he gave away his modules][2], but never got around to any
of my ideas for it. What was I thinking? In hindsight, I don’t
get around to my own ideas for comparable lengths of time; I
should never have applied for it.

[1]: http://p3rl.org/Getopt::Auto
[2]: http://use.perl.org/~petdance/journal/20904

I did start a refactor at some point that’s still sitting in my
projects directory, but in all honesty I didn’t get very far
before losing steam. I even delayed writing this note, thinking
I’d get around to making my changes available, but they’re
insubstantial and unfinished and it really doesn’t matter any
more. There’s a patch in the RT queue that’s been sitting there
for years. I didn’t think the patch too great, but it would have
been better to apply it and release than leave it in limbo
waiting for a reformulation that I’d never get around to.

It is time to admit defeat. I’ve been a bad steward.

Is there anyone reading this who cares about the module? Want to
take it over?

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Aristotle Pagaltzis - 18 Jun 2009 10:04 GMT

* Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> [2009-06-18 04:25]:

> I even delayed writing this note, thinking I’d get around to
> making my changes available, but they’re insubstantial and
> unfinished and it really doesn’t matter any more.

Actually, http://github.com/ap/Getopt--Auto has my work now. It
addresses the issues in the RT ticket, though there are no tests
and it’d have to be firmed up for a release. Feel free to keep
them or throw them away or do whatever, in case you decide to
pick up the module.

Regards,

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Ken Williams - 11 Jul 2009 03:06 GMT

> Actually, http://github.com/ap/Getopt--Auto has my work now.

It's interesting how everyone seems to have different desiderata for
Getopt modules.

Personally, my holy grail of Getopt modules would let me specify my
command-line switches in a format that can be parsed by shells (e.g.
the fabulous zsh) so they could auto-complete script options for me
without having to duplicate everything in my _compdir.

Or maybe vice versa. I dunno.

-Ken

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James E Keenan - 14 Jul 2009 00:43 GMT

> * Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> [2009-06-18 04:25]:
>> I even delayed writing this note, thinking I’d get around to
>> making my changes available, but they’re insubstantial and
>> unfinished and it really doesn’t matter any more.
>
> Actually, http://github.com/ap/Getopt--Auto has my work now.

What commands should a git noob use to access/download this from github?

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James E Keenan - 14 Jul 2009 00:45 GMT

I see from another thread that this module was recently adopted by
Geoffrey Leach.

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Geoffrey Leach - 14 Jul 2009 14:05 GMT

> > * Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> [2009-06-18 04:25]:
> >> I even delayed writing this note, thinking I’d get around to
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> I see from another thread that this module was recently adopted by
> Geoffrey Leach.

Indeed. That's me, and I'm working on it. Suggestions are welcome.

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