Bug#306755: ITP: argtable -- a cross platform ANSI C library for parsing GNU style command line arguments

[Shachar Shemesh <debianbug@shemesh.biz>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Shachar Shemesh <debianbug@shemesh.biz>


* Package name    : argtable
  Version         : 2.4
  Upstream Author : Stewart Heitmann <sheitmann@users.sourceforge.net>
* URL             : http://argtable.sourceforge.net/
* License         : LGPL
  Description     : a cross platform ANSI C library for parsing GNU 
style command line arguments

Argtable is an ANSI C library for parsing GNU style command line options
with a minimum of fuss. It enables a program's command line syntax to be
defined in the source code as an array of argtable structs. The command
line is then parsed according to that specification and the resulting
values are returned in those same structs where they are accessible to
the main program. Both tagged (-v, --verbose, --foo=bar) and untagged
arguments are supported, as are multiple instances of each argument.
Syntax error handling is automatic and the library also provides the
means for generating a textual description of the command line syntax.

Argtable is identical in user experience to GNU getopt_long (and is, in
fact, based on it), but runs on all posix platforms, Windows and Mac
OSX.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=he_IL (charmap=ISO-8859-8)