[Rake-devel] Option parsing

[Patrick Bennett]

Jim Weirich wrote:

> It's not on my list of things to do on rake, but you raise some good 
> points.
>
>Are you thinking about the ability of a Rakefile to specify additional 
>options?  That would be interesting.
>  
>
Not specifically, but it 'could' be interesting. 
Right now I have it so that any x=y options [actually didn't you add 
this?] on the command line are set in the rakefiles environment, so 
rakefile's can simply do ENV['xxxxx'] checks and have it work whether 
set through the environment or the command-line.
I've also added a number of commands specific to the entire build system 
I've built up around rake ('vaguely' similar in some of the concepts to 
boost.build/jam).  I think I posted some messages about it months ago 
but there was little to no discussion about it.
I've probably got the need for about 6 additional options right now, and 
having to specify all of them as having short aliases makes for a pretty 
confusing option list.
I've added a fair bit to the base rake.rb file actually.  It's 
questionable how much would be generally applicable to the base 'rake' 
project though.

Patrick Bennett