Better argument parsing
ROOT’s binaries understand a mixture of short and long arguments. The parsing is done in
C++, with ad hoc C++ code. We would like to switch to a C++ command line argument library.
This would imply implementing ROOT’s options (e.g. in TApplication.cxx
and
rootcling_impl.cxx
) using that library.
Expected Results
- ROOT’s command line arguments are parsed with a C++ library; we can combine arguments:
root -lbq tutorials/hsimple.C
Requirements
Basic C++ knowledge; there is nothing ROOT specific.