Re: A plea for more tooling usage

[Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@inktank.com>]

On 05/27/2014 03:19 PM, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Sage Weil wrote:
>>> If anybody is interested in helping with that effort, pull requests
>>> are very welcome!  :)
>>>
> [snip]
>
>> As hinted at in the patch, something like boost::program_options would
>> be nice, but that's a chunk of work & I'd rather hear feedback first
>> this way or the other. For the boost option, not sure if verbose error
>> reporting (the if (oss) parts) would translate over easily, I presume
>> that is deemed important?
>>
> Hi guys,
>
> any further opinion on that? If no one feels strongly, I think I'll
> just go ahead & hack something up with program_options, and see if
> that looks more pleasant. :)

It'd be interesting if you could use boost::program_options just
for the binary-specific flags.

Trying to use it for all options, including those from
common/config_opts.h, is a lot more effort. There was some work towards
that a while ago, though the branch is no longer there:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ceph.devel/11139

Josh