[darcs-devel] [issue1550] general purpose command line parsing library (CmdArgs)

[Reinier Lamers]

Reinier Lamers <tux_rocker at reinier.de> added the comment:

Now that I'm Unicodizing metadata handling, I stumble upon the handling of 
command line arguments. On POSIX systems, filenames are just bytes, but patch 
names etc. are text. We need to be able to pass both via the command line.

It seems the most elegant to me to code this into the command line handling 
library. For a given option, you'd specify whether it takes a binary or a text 
argument. In the first case, the library gives you byte values (like getArgs 
returns), in the other case it returns teh byte values interpreted to text 
using the locale.

Bye,
Reinier

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