Hi, Seeing that I've got a lot of useful feedback for the initial release, I am pleased to announce the availability of CLI 1.1.0. CLI is an open-source (MIT license), cross-platform command line interface compiler for C++. It allows you to specify the options that your program supports, their types, default values, and documentation. This specification can then be automatically translated to C++ classes that implement parsing of the command line arguments and provide a convenient and type-safe interface for accessing the extracted data. The automatic usage and documentation generation is by far the biggest new feature in this release. The usage information is formatted during compilation and the documentation can be generated in the HTML and man page formats. For an example of the HTML output, see the documentation for the CLI compiler itself (you may also want to check the cli.1 man page and the usage information printed by the compiler): http://www.codesynthesis.com/projects/cli/doc/cli.xhtml Other new features in this release: * Optional generation of modifiers in addition to accessors. * Support for erasing the parsed elements from the argv array. * Support for custom argument sources via an abstract scanner interface. * Support for reading command line arguments from the argv array as well as files specified with command line options. For a more detailed list of new features in this release see: http://www.codesynthesis.com/pipermail/cli-users/2009-December/000001.html More information, documentation, and source code distributions are available from the project's web page: http://www.codesynthesis.com/projects/cli/ Enjoy, Boris -- Boris Kolpackov, Code Synthesis http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog Open-source XML data binding for C++ http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsd XML data binding for embedded systems http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsde Command line interface to C++ compiler http://codesynthesis.com/projects/cli