You might be thinking of DDCLI: http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2008/04/29/ddcli/
I've used it before, and when you're writing an ObjC CLI, it does its job perfectly. - Carter Allen On Jul 21, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > I'm writing a Foundation tool that will take both options and pathname > arguments. > > If you use NSUserDefaults, you can handle key-value options (-threshold 17) > pretty easily, but this has limitations. I don't see how it can be graceful > for > > * Two-hyphen options (chatty --verbose). > * Non-value options (ls -a). > * Single-item key-value options (chatty --verbose=3 -or- chatty -v3). > * Concatenated options (ls -al) > > I also don't know what you do about "normal" arguments (ls -al /Users/fritza) > without using NSUserDefaults _and_ running through [[NSProcessInfo > processInfo] arguments] with at least a minimal state machine, which defeats > the purpose. > > Enough complaining. Correct me if I'm wrong. > > I remember from 2001 or so that there was an open-source framework inherited > from the OpenStep days, that included a helper for getopt(3) sorts of tasks, > but for the life of me, I can't remember its name, and I don't know where it > would be hosted or whether it would be compatible with today's Foundation > framework. > > Yes, iterating through [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] arguments] and parsing > for myself is the ultimate option, but if it's a solved problem, why make all > the mistakes again? > > Google doesn't turn up much, beyond the NSUserDefaults trick. Any ideas? > > — F > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/lists%40cartera.me > > This email sent to li...@cartera.me _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
