[Nagiosplug-devel] Nagios::Plugin and Help change proposal
Gavin Carr
gavin at openfusion.com.au
Mon Nov 12 23:21:37 CET 2007
Hi Chris,
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 10:49:31AM +0100, Christoph Maser wrote:
> i would like to see N::P changed in a way that the help feature repeats
> the argumentname itself before the help text. Right now one has to write
> something like this:
>
> $plugin->add_arg(
> spec => 'hello=s',
> help => "--hello\n Hello string",
> required => 1,
> );
>
>
> Wich can easly lead to typos. It would be nice if one could write
>
> $plugin->add_arg(
> spec => 'hello=s',
> help => "Hello string",
> required => 1,
> );
>
> and the help feature would automatically add "--$spec\n "
N::P supports this, it's probably just not documented in the top-level N::P
module (there's really too much functionality to document there properly).
See N::P::Getopt for the details.
Cheers,
Gavin
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