clilib

Command-line utilities library.

Command-line Arguments utilities

Ported from dart-lang/args
A command-line argument parsing library for Dart.

Copyright (c) 2014, the Dart project authors. Please see the AUTHORS file for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

Parses raw command-line arguments into a set of options and values.

This library supports GNU and POSIX style options.

example

--mode            The compiler configuration
                  [debug, release]

--out=<path>      The output path
--[no-]verbose    Show additional diagnostic info
--arch            The architecture to compile for
      [arm]       ARM Holding 32-bit chip
      [ia32]      Intel x86

Usage

import shell.Program;
import cli.args.*;

var parser:ArgParser = new ArgParser();
var results:ArgResults = parser.parse( Program.argv );
//etc.

Misc.

We could also use ArgumentsParser.as, it was working fine and even lighter and simpler.

But the idea is to standardise on the POSIX style options, the same way Redtamarin provide a POSIX library for C functions like fopen(), getenv(), etc. it was only logic to provide a library that enforce POSIX for command-line arguements.

Among many different libraries that parse command-line options dart-lang/args was chosen, a bit of an arbritary choice consisting of me thinking this library is of good quality and a good opportunity to port Dart code to AS3 code.

Info

This library is alpha quality, it's been ported quite fast and not fully tested. It need a bit more real life testing with a couple of command-line tools and should be fine.