Wondering if any more doc for Boost Progam Options

Just started using the Boost Program Options library. Great stuff! Thanks! Was wondering if there is any more documentation anywhere? For example, is there any documentation for the various methods that can be passed to .add_options(), like boost::program_options::value()? I just happened to figure out boost::program_options::bool_switch() by chance. (I also had to hack my way through an assert to figure out that the "short" option tag, such as -t in ("sometag,t", . could only be one character.) The tutorial was a great start but the detailed documentation just seems to link to the header files which are largely uncommented. Thanks, Charles

Hi Charles:
The same thing happened to me. In particular bool_switch was very useful,
but the explanations of how to use it are absent from the documentation.
It looks like the project is badly supported by its owner at the moment.
One could write detailed best practices section. I could think of starting
it, but also have no time currently.
Thanks,
Dmitriy.
On 20 June 2012 04:02, Charles Mills
Just started using the Boost Program Options library. Great stuff! Thanks! ****
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Was wondering if there is any more documentation anywhere? For example, is there any documentation for the various methods that can be passed to .add_options(), like boost::program_options::value()? I just happened to figure out boost::program_options::bool_switch() by chance. (I also had to hack my way through an assert to figure out that the “short” option tag, such as –t in (“sometag,t”, … could only be one character.)****
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The tutorial was a great start but the detailed documentation just seems to link to the header files which are largely uncommented.****
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Thanks,****
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*Charles *****
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Thanks, man. Sigh. The curse of open source: documentation under construction. I was looking at some open source project the other day. The code said it had been stabilized in 2003. The documentation was still "preliminary" and "under construction." The open source movement needs to recruit tech writers to the revolution. Charles From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Dmitriy Matison Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 12:13 AM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Wondering if any more doc for Boost Progam Options Hi Charles: The same thing happened to me. In particular bool_switch was very useful, but the explanations of how to use it are absent from the documentation. It looks like the project is badly supported by its owner at the moment. One could write detailed best practices section. I could think of starting it, but also have no time currently.
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