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by davidpfarrell 685 days ago
Ha I thought it was a tool for managing complex args for command-line tools
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andreypopp 685 days ago
checkout http://docopt.org then
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kardos 685 days ago
That seems to be an abandoned project
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clan 685 days ago
Yes, according to the archived Rust implmentation[1] which in turn refers you to either clap[2] or structopt[3]. Other implmentations does not mention this but those I looked at had not been touched for years. Either very stable or unmaintained. Unfortunately the latter according to the Rust crate. The dotNet implmentation had a very small version bump in the dependencies but the rest of the project does not seem to have been touched the past 2 years.

[1] https://github.com/docopt/docopt.rs

[2] https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap/

[3] https://docs.rs/structopt/latest/structopt/

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kardos 685 days ago
FWIW, there seems to be a less-abandoned fork here: https://github.com/jazzband/docopt-ng

I'm sticking with argparse though

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sandywaffles 685 days ago
structopt became part of clap proper (as `clap_derive`) when clap v3 was released.
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wingmanjd 685 days ago
Whoah, that's a neat tool! I definitely need to implement this with my scripts.

Thanks!

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maleldil 685 days ago
It's abandoned, and tbh it's more trouble than it's worth. It's far easier and more reliable to specify the CLI and have it generate the help text than the other way around. All major languages have good CLI parsing libraries (some in the stdlib itself, like Go and Python).
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kardos 685 days ago
Yeah..... it seems like it would be fragile and require lots of iterating to converge on a help doc that is both "pretty" and correctly parsed by docopt
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thechao 685 days ago
It's a neat idea (I maintained an unofficial C port for a while); but, terrible in practice.
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formerly_proven 685 days ago
Part of the kitchen sink that is rST: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtex...
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JohnKemeny 685 days ago
Yes, should perhaps change the title to "argumentation".
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jonhohle 685 days ago
Yes, I did as well. I don’t really care for the way DocC documents arguments and was hoping for something innovative.
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shabble 683 days ago
there's also usage: https://usage.jdx.dev/spec/
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