Re: New module proposal: argp

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hello,

Dale Mellor <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
>    I've recently sent up updates to the (ice-9 getopt-long) module as needed 
> for my mcron program, and I want to follow that up
> with a higher-level argument parser in a new module called argp (it will work 
> along similar lines to glibc's argp).
>
>    Would be interested to know if anyone has an opinion on this.

I don't know about glibc's argp, but for an argument parser that
provides some features mentioned by for instance 'click' further down
thread, check out https://gitlab.com/a-sassmannshausen/guile-config

(guix install guile-config if you have guix, though the usual make
etc. should also work).

Alex