[Development] Qt Playground - Command Line Parser experiment

[marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com]

On 15/03/2012 08:33, ext Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:23:27PM +0000, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
>> I'm not saying that it cannot be provided for Qt. I'm saying there
>> are many opinions on how an argument parser should work, so do it
>> in an Addon first. Then it doesn't matter so much if not everyone
>> agrees. It might be harder if you don't get broad agreement when
>> working on a feature branch of QtBase (say if Lars or Thiago say
>> no), then you cannot merge and the work is in limbo.
>>
>> And nothing says we cannot pull it from the Addon into QtBase at a
>> later point in time.
>>
> i'd consider making it an addon a fallback in case it gets rejected
> for qtbase, not the default choice to get it started. repo management
> is virtually non-existent in gerrit, so i'd prefer not to add more
> noise to the project overview.

FYI, since discussions happened on IRC:

Upon agreement with QtCore maintainer Thiago, a cli_parser branch has 
been created for QtBase, with Submit rights for Laszlo and anyone added 
to his Gerrit group "CLI Parser".

Thiago has noted that this branch will not be merged directly into 
master, but will be used to develop the command line parser. Upon 
acceptance of the finalized parser, the branch history will be cleaned 
up and rebased before it is merged into master.

If the final parser is not accepted into QtCore, it can be put into its 
own playground repo at that time.

-- 
.marius