[Gnucash-changes] r12868 - gnucash/trunk/src/bin - Use popt to automatically generate pretty --usage and --help.

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:31:55PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Quoting Chris Shoemaker <chris at cvs.gnucash.org>:
>>
>> >+        {"rpc-server", '\0', POPT_ARG_NONE, NULL, 0,
>> >+         _("Run the RPC Server if GnuCash was configured with
>> >--enable-rpc"),
>> >+         NULL},
>>
>> No reason to continue with this -- the rpc-server code was ripped out
>> already.
>
> Ok, I'll drop the option.  Are any others obsolete?  I'm scared to
> test if these actually work:
>  --config-path=CONFIGPATH     Set configuration path

This let's you change the global config path, /etc/gnucash/config
Right now this file is installed empty but it /must/ exist or
gnucash will exit.  I don't know exactly what it's for.

>  --share-path=SHAREPATH       Set shared data file search path
>  --doc-path=DOCPATH           Set the search path for documentation files

I'm not 100% sure what these are for.

> And these make me wince:
>  --evaluate=COMMAND           Evaluate the guile command
>  --load=FILE                  Load the given .scm file

I'm not sure how --load is any different than gnucash-env guile -s file,
or --evaluate is any different than gnucash-env guile -c command.  It's
POSSIBLE that they load the gnucash modules first, but I'm not 100% sure.

> and I go "huh?"  to theses:
>  --add-price-quotes=FILE      Add price quotes to given FILE

This is used to automatically run the quote grabber.  It's a way
to automate the "Get Quotes" functionality.  People actually use
this now -- they set up a cron job to grab the end-of-day quotes
every night (or every week).

>  --namespace=REGEXP           Regular expression determining which namespace
>                               commodities will be retrieved

I'm not at all sure what this is for.

> and I think "shouldn't that be automatic?" to these:
>  --load-user-config           Load the user configuration
>  --load-system-config         Load the system configuration

Um, yea.  I'm not sure what these are for, either.

-derek
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