[Rake-devel] Option parsing

[Patrick Bennett]

Jim, do you have any plans to switch rake to use optparse for option 
parsing?
The current use of optparse, as well as the insistence that *all* 
options have long *and* short options is proving to be kind of limiting.
There are a number of options I'd like to add (logging options for one) 
for my own purposed that I'd like to simply be --long options only as 
coming up with variations of single letter equivalents just makes it too 
confusing to the user.
The current rake setup doesn't allow this.  I think the current 
requirement that everything be in a long/short options array is partly 
to provide 'help,' but optparse also happens to handle that really well 
already. :)

Cheers,
Patrick Bennett