argparse/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.6.0 (unreleased)

New features

• An array of functions can now be as the value of converter property, so that multi-argumnet options can use different conversion rules for different arguments (#14).
• Mutexes can now include positional arguments (#11).
• Added hidden property for arguments, options and commands, removing them from the autogenerated usage and help strings.
• Added :group(name, ...) method to Parser and Command objects, allowing custom grouping of arguments, options, and commands in autogenerated help string.

Improvements

• -- can now be used as a normal option name, with arguments after -- always passed to it verbatim (#17).

0.5.0 (2015-12-09)

New features

• Actions can now be used to implement custom processing logic.
• Added actions for arguments.
• Added string aliases for actions such as store_false.
• Command actions are now called after the parsing, with result target as the argument.
• Added command_target property for storing name of used command.

Improvements

• Improved error messages on missing arguments.
• -f123 is now interpreted as -f 123 when -f takes an optional argument.

0.4.1 (2015-08-08)

Miscellaneous

• Added license header to argparse.lua for ease of bundling and packaging (#3).

0.4.0 (2015-06-20)

Breaking changes

• Removed aliases property, aliases can now be set using several space separated strings as name, or, as it was possible before, by setting name property several times.

New features

• Added handle_options property (#2).
• Often used properties now can be passed as arguments when calling or constructing an element.

Improvements

• Cleaned up trailing whitespace in generated messages.

0.3.2 (2015-01-15)

Miscellaneous

• Argparse no longer bundles 30log.

0.3.1 (2014-11-06)

Fixes

• Fixed incompatibility with old Luarocks versions.

0.3.0 (2014-08-25)

New features

• New show_default field disables automatic indication of default values in help messages.

Improvements

• In default targets - is now replaced with _.
• Changed usage message generation to show options taking variable number of arguments after positional arguments.

Fixes

• Fixed incompatibility with strict.lua and other checkers (#1).

0.2.0 (2014-03-09)

New features

• Added mutually exclusive groups.
• Options and arguments can now be configured to use different argument placeholders for first, second, etc. arguments. E.g. --pair <key> <value>.

Fixes

• Fixed script name inference not working for Parser:get_help() and Parser:get_usage() methods.

0.1.0 (2014-03-02)

Initial release.