the all-thing | 2010-09-04 16:29:09 -0400 ========================================== Trollop up to 8k downloads -------------------------- Date: May 11, 2010 1:15am Author: William Morgan Labels: trollop URL: http://all-thing.net/trollop-8k.txt _UPDATE 2010-05-19_: 12k downloads. Whoohoo! I just noticed that Trollop 1.16.2 has over 8,000 downloads [1]. That's roughly an order of magnitude more than Sup [2]. So, yay. Of course I suspect it's largely thanks to the fact that it's now a dependency of Cucumber [3]. But I'll take what I can get. After all, it's only been the best option parser for Ruby for three whole years. Some people get it [4] "In my experience, OptionParser has been frustrating to use for several reasons, one of them being the poor documentation -- hence your question. William Morgan, the author of Trollop, shows no mercy in his criticism (for example, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/897630/ and http://trollop.rubyforge.org). I can't dispute what he says." And some people are merrily producing horrible alternatives [5]. [1] http://rubygems.org/gems/trollop [2] http://rubygems.org/gems/sup [3] http://groups.google.com/group/cukes/msg/29bdffd3d58bd688 [4] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2732894/using-rubys-optionparser-to-parse-sub-commands: [5] http://optiflag.rubyforge.org/ Replies -------- Brendan O'Connor, on May 11, 2010 6:11pm: ["| broken link:\n", "| http://all-thing.net/label/groups.google.com/group/cukes/msg/29bdffd3d58bd688\n", "| \n"] William Morgan, on May 11, 2010 11:38pm: [" | Fix0red thanks.\n"] This delicious text version served up by Whisper .