Re: Functional programming with GLib

[Stefan Sauer <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Am 09.05.2017 um 10:59 schrieb Tristan Van Berkom:
> On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 19:09 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>
> > wrote:
> > > For command line parsing I'd actually favour a slightly bolder
> > > approach of deprecating GOptionContext, and having something
> > > slightly
> > > more modern — in terms of being bindable in other languages, and
> > > well-integrated with API like GApplication.
> >
> > What is lacking in the current incarnation of commandline option
> > support in GApplication? 
>
> Since this was raised here and I've currently been working with
> python's click library and trying to make some enhancements there, just
> thought I'd throw some things out there.
>
> Some things that I'm finding important for CLI apps:
>
> A.) Automatic generation of man pages and similar documentation,
>     especially generating separate man pages for each separate sub
>     command.
>
>     I'm not even sure, do we have this already ?

You can document your man page using gtkdoc (with a PROGRAM section). More
introspection would be nice though.

> B.) Built-in support for bash completions, allowing optional overrides
>     for the application to implement custom completion suggestions
>     for selected options/arguments.
>
>
> This is all probably possible without completely replacing the API with
> a new one, though.
>
> Cheers,
>     -Tristan
>
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