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To enable argparse to be effectively used for EAL, we have > new features and some changes in the first two patches, which are > relatively small - though are ABI/API affecting. > > These add support for saving off strings and boolean values, have argparse > stop parsing at a "--", and finally have argparse return the number of > arguments actually parsed on success. > > The third patch is a bigger change. It was inspired by the fact that > when adding the boolean and string support we had to update some > "MAX" value defines used in the code. This is obviously not good from > an ABI/API perspective, once the library becomes part of the stable ABI. > In order to remove these MAX values, patch 3 looks to replace the > #define values with enums - which means some rework splitting the > various flags into separate categories, and similarly splitting the > single "flags" field with separate fields specifying if an argument > value is required, what type that value should have, and then a > final smaller field for any additional modifiers. > > Bruce Richardson (3): > argparse: add support for string and boolean args > argparse: make argparse EAL-args compatible > argparse: use enums to remove max-value defines in lists > Ping for review. Chengwen, as maintainer of argparse, can you perhaps take a look at this set and give your feedback? I'm hoping to do some rework of EAL argument parsing using argparse (see [1]), which requires some of the changes in this patchset. Thanks, /Bruce [1] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=35256&state=*