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Re:Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications by michaelmior on Sunday August 24, 2014 @03:48PM (#8219465)
Is there such a thing as POSIX-compliant argument descriptions? I know POSIX specifies some things about the format of options, but I didn't realize there was a formalized option description language.
Re:Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications by euid on Sunday August 24, 2014 @04:08PM (#8219522)
Yes. IEEE Std. 1003.1 Utility Conventions

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...

This is actually how Docopt happened (Vladimir Keleshev mentioned it in the PyCon UK 2012 talk).

Re:Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications by michaelmior on Monday August 25, 2014 @09:11AM (#8221579)
Cool! Thanks for the reference :)
Re:Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications by agumonkey on Sunday August 24, 2014 @04:58PM (#8219650)
Me neither, I thought docopt was a hardcoded fragile thing, until the author explains everything is almost perfectly defined.