From: Magnus Holm <judofyr@...>
Date: 2012-11-22T01:29:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:49821] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #5010] Add Slop(-like) in stdlib and deprecate current OptionParser API

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Zachary Scott <zachary@zacharyscott.net> wrote:
> optparse is used by many programs, including other stdlib gems.
>
> In my opinion, it would be best to keep backwards compatibility.
>
> Why create a new gem, instead of improving the current standard library?

I agree. Can we identify where optparse isn't optimal and tweak it?

We already have two argument parsing library in stdlib (getoptlong and
optparse).