Published February 27, 2025 | Version v2.5.0
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CLIUtils/CLI11: v2.5.0: Formatter

Creators

  • 1. Princeton University
  • 2. @LLNL
  • 3. Luminar Technologies
  • 4. @dontnod
  • 5. Nvidia
  • 6. Globe Institute, Section for GeoGenetics
  • 7. @GarnerCorp
  • 8. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Campus Hagenberg
  • 9. CSIC
  • 10. @vmware
  • 11. Open Robotics
  • 12. Independent
  • 13. University of Malaga, @MRPT
  • 14. @Intel

Description

Version 2.5: Help Formatter

This version add a new formatter with improved control capabilities and output aligned with standards for help output. It also add a modifier to enable use of non-standard option names. Along with several bug fixes for edge cases in string and config file parsing.

  • Better help formatter #866, this better aligns the help generation with UNIX standard and allows use in help2man. #1093
  • Add mechanism to allow option groups to be hidden and all options be considered part of the parent for help display #1039
  • Add a modifier to allow non-standard single flag option names such as -option. #1078
  • Add modifier for subcommands to disable fallthrough which can resolve some issues with positional arguments #1073
  • Add some polish to config file output removing some unnecessary output and add modifier to control output of default values #1075
  • Add the ability to specify pair/tuple defaults and improved parsing #1081
  • Bugfix: Take the configurability of an option name into account when determining naming conflicts #1049
  • Bugfix: Fix an issue where an extra subcommand header was being printed in the output #1058
  • Bugfix: Add additional fuzzing tests and fixes for a bug in escape string processing, and resolve inconsistencies in the handing of {} between command line parsing and config file parsing. #1060
  • Bugfix: Improve handling of some ambiguities in vector input processing for config files, specifically in the case of vector of vector inputs. #1069
  • Bugfix: Fix an issue in the handling of uint8_t enums, and some issues related to single element tuples #1087
  • Bugfix: Fix an issue with binary strings containing a \x #1097
  • Bugfix: Move the help generation priority so it triggers before config file processing #1106
  • Bugfix: Fixed an issue where max/min on positionals was not being respected and optional positionals were being ignored #1108
  • Bugfix: Fix an issue with strings which started and ended with brackets being misinterpreted as vectors. The parsing now has special handling of strings which start with [[ #1110
  • Bugfix: Fix some macros for support in C++26 related to wide string parsing #1113
  • Bugfix: Allow trailing spaces on numeric string conversions #1115
  • Docs: Update pymod.find_installation to find python in meson.build #1076
  • Docs: Add example for transform validators #689
  • Docs: Fix several spelling mistakes #1101
  • Backend: Update copyright dates to 2025 #1112
  • Backend: Update CMAKE minimum version to 3.10 #1084

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Repository URL
https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11