[Coin-discuss] parameter parser

[Matthew Saltzman]

I'm pretty sure the answer to the original question is No.  To have that, 
we'd need a grammar for parameters, and I don't believe there's one of 
those yet either.

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Matthew Galati wrote:

> FYI. I am thinking something like this: 
> http://www.boost.org/doc/html/program_options.html
>
> And now that I look at what boost offers - it's nice - why don't we just 
> use that? I've heard there are license issues mixing CPL and Boost?

There were concerns when we first talked about using Boost libs, but some 
important things have changed since then, and it's probably time to 
revisit the question.

I'll carry this part of the discussion to the board.

>
> Also -- boost/graph is really nice.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org [mailto:coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Galati
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 4:17 PM
> To: Discussions about open source software for Operations Research
> Subject: [Coin-discuss] parameter parser
>
> Hi --
>
> Is there a standard object for dealing with parameter parsing (from file 
> / env / command line)? Just about every project has the need for such a 
> thing and as far as I can tell, each project has its own method for 
> doing this. Does this already exist (in CoinUtils) and I am missing it?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Matt

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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