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It would be awesome if cmake support would be added. If you are open to that I can PR the change.

Thanks,
/Dan

Currently, dropt isn't available as debian package: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=dropt.

This project seems useful, I've found it, when I was looking for better alternative to GNU getopt.

Open-source developers want to get their software packaged into official distribution repositories, because it makes it easier for users to use their software. And, it is much more complicated to package software, which uses library, which isn't in official distribution repositories.

Debian packages are automatically imported into Ubuntu package archives, which is one of the most popular distributions.

You should also consider getting project into official repositories of other distributions. I'm creating issue for Debian only, as I use Debian based distributions.

Not an issue but a suggestion. If you allow passing of dropt_option with the current option to the handlers then it becomes possible to write a single generic handler. E.g.:

... my_generic_handler(..., dropt_option *option, ...) {
switch(option->short_name) {
case 'x':
...
break;
}
..
}

Why do this? I am writing an application that executes commands. The commands are specified on the command line in the order of execution, and there may be multiple of the same command. E.g.:

MyApp --reset --read --reset --write --settime=3 --write --settime=4 --write

By using a generic handler I can call it for multiple command line options and build a linked list of commands to execute, and I only have to write the handler code once. Note - inside my generic handler I make a call to the built-in handlers, e.g. option->handler();

Thanks.

#include <strstream>

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/strstream

strstream has been deprecated since C++98, std::stringstream and boost::iostreams::array are the recommended replacements

droptxx is a thin wrapper around the C dropt library. I also wrote it quite awhile ago for C++03, but it would be much easier to use in C++11 code if lambda expressions could be supplied as callbacks.

I am looking for a way to make an argument required. I see the dropt_attr_optional_val but can you add a required version?