daniel.egloff@zkb.ch wrote: [Doug, there's a question to you as release manager at the end of this emal]
Dear boost list
It has been discussed several times already that boost::program_options throws an error if an unknown option is encountered. However, for command line options there is a boolean flag to handle unknown option (presumably?)
In program_options/details/cmdline.hpp :
cmdline(int argc, const char*const * argv, int style, bool allow_unregistered = false);
However, common_command_line_parser::run(), when constructing a cmdline object does not forward this flag.
Hi Daniel, I have both good news and bad news. The good news is that it's now possible to specify this flag via the public interface. Just command_line_parser(argc, avgv).allow_unregistered().run() will do. The bad news is that my recent refactoring broke support for 'allow_unregistered' inside command line parser. Really bad, especially given that I intended to add 'allow_unregistered' to the public interface as I did the changes. And we're in feature freeze mode now :-( Doug, what's your opinion about my fixing the problem, despite feature freeze? Basically, there's public interface function that does not work at all, so it can be considered as bugfix, not as a new feature. - Volodya