adambrewster / ArgParse.jl

Package for parsing command-line arguments to Julia programs.

ArgParse.jl Overview

ArgParse.jl is a package for parsing command-line arguments to Julia programs.

The documentation can be found at this link, or in the doc directory.

See also the examples directory.

Changes in release 0.4.0

New features

• Added support for vectors of METAVAR names (see #33)

Other changes

• Support for Julia v0.3 was dropped.

Changes in release 0.3.1

New available settings

• fromfile_prexif_chars (see #27)
• preformatted_desciption/preformatted_epilog (see #28)

Changes in release 0.3.0

Breaking changes

Upgrading from versions 0.2.X to 0.3.X, the following API changes were made, which may break existing code:

• Option arguments are no longer evaluated by default. This is for security reasons. Evaluation can be forced on a per-option basis with the eval_arg=true setting (although this is discuraged).
• The syntax of the add_arg_table function has changed, it now takes a Dict object instead of an @options opbject, since the dependency on the Options.jl module was removed. (The @add_arg_table macro is unchanged though.)

Other changes

• Documented that overloading the function ArgParse.parse_item can be used to instruct ArgParse on how to parse custom types. Parse error reporting was also improved
• Removed dependecy on the Options.jl module
• Enabled precompilation on Julia 0.4