clap/CHANGELOG.md

v1.5.5 (2016-01-04)

Bug Fixes

• fixes an issue where invalid short args didn't cause an error (c9bf7e44)
• prints the name in version and help instead of binary name (8f3817f6, closes #368)
• fixes an intentional panic issue discovered via clippy (ea83a3d4)

v1.5.4 (2015-12-18)

Examples

• 17_yaml: conditinonally compile 17_yaml example (575de089)

Improvements

• clippy improvements (99cdebc2)

Bug Fixes

• errors: return correct error type in WrongNumValues error builder (5ba8ba9d)
• ArgRequiredElseHelp setting now takes precedence over missing required args (faad83fb, closes #362)

v1.5.3 (2015-11-20)

Bug Fixes

• Errors: fixes some instances when errors are missing a final newline (c4d2b171)

v1.5.2 (2015-11-14)

Bug Fixes

• Errors: fixes a compiling bug when built on Windows or without the color feature (a35f7634)

v1.5.1 (2015-11-13)

Bug Fixes

• Required Args: fixes a bug where required args are not correctly accounted for (f03b88a9, closes #343)

v1.5.0 (2015-11-13)

Bug Fixes

• fixes a bug with required positional args in usage strings (c6858f78)

Documentation

• FAQ: updates readme with slight changes to FAQ (a4ef0fab)

Improvements

• massive errors overhaul (cdc29175)
• ArgMatcher: huge refactor and deduplication of code (8988853f)
• Errors: errors have been vastly improved (e59bc0c1)
• Traits: refactoring some configuration into traits (5800cdec)

Performance

• App:
  • more BTreeMap->Vec, Opts and SubCmds (bc4495b3)
  • changes flags BTreeMap->Vec (d357640f)
  • removed unneeded BTreeMap (78971fd6)
  • changes BTreeMap to VecMap in some instances (64b921d0)
  • removed excess clones (ec0089d4)

v1.4.7 (2015-11-03)

Documentation

• Clarify behavior of Arg::multiple with options. (434f497a)
• Fix typos and improve grammar. (c1f66b5d)

Bug Fixes

• Error Status: fixes bug where --help and --version return non-zero exit code (89b51fdf)

v1.4.6 (2015-10-29)

Features

• allows parsing without a binary name for daemons and interactive CLIs (aff89d57, closes #318)

Bug Fixes

• Errors: tones down quoting in some error messages (34ce59ed, closes #309)
• Help and Version: only builds help and version once (e3be87cf)
• Option Args: fixes bug with args and multiple values (c9a9548a, closes #323)
• POSIX Overrides: fixes bug where required args are overridden (40ed2b50)
• Safe Matches: using 'safe' forms of the get_matches family no longer exit the process (c47025dc, closes #256)
• Versionless SubCommands: fixes a bug where the -V flag was needlessly built (27df8b9d, closes #329)

Documentation

• adds comparison in readme (1a8bf31e, closes #325)

v1.4.5 (2015-10-06)

Bug Fixes

• fixes crash on invalid arg error (c78ce128)

v1.4.4 (2015-10-06)

Documentation

• clean up some formatting (b7df92d7)
• move the crate-level docs to top of the lib.rs file (d7233bf1)
• changes doc comments to rustdoc comments (34b601be)
• fixes panic in 14_groups example (945b00a0, closes #295)
• avoid suggesting star dependencies. (d33228f4)
• Rustdoc: adds portions of the readme to main rustdoc page (6f9ee181, closes #293)

Bug Fixes

• grammar error in some conflicting option errors (e73b07e1)
• Unified Help: sorts both flags and options as a unified category (2a223dad)
• Usage: fixes a bug where required args aren't filtered properly (72b453dc, closes #277)
• Usage Strings: fixes a bug ordering of elements in usage strings (aaf0d6fe, closes #298)

Features

• supports -aValue style options (0e3733e4)
• Trailing VarArg: adds opt-in setting for final arg being vararg (27018b18, closes #278)

v1.4.3 (2015-09-30)

Features

• allows accessing arg values by group name (c92a4b9e)

Documentation

• use links to examples instead of plain text (bb4fe237)

Bug Fixes

• Help Message: required args no longer double list in usage (1412e639, closes #277)
• Possible Values: possible value validation is restored (f121ae74, closes #287)

v1.4.2 (2015-09-23)

Bug Fixes

• Conflicts: fixes bug with conflicts not removing required args (e17fcec5, closes #271)

v1.4.1 (2015-09-22)

Examples

• add clap_app quick example (4ba6249c)

Features

• Unicode: allows non-panicing on invalid unicode characters (c5bf7ddc)

Documentation

• properly names Examples section for rustdoc (87ba5445)
• fixes various typos and spelling (f85640f9)
• Arg: unhides fields of the Arg struct (931aea88)

Bug Fixes

• flush the buffer in App::print_version() (cbc42a37)
• Macro benchmarks (13712da1)

v1.4.0 (2015-09-09)

Features

• allows printing help message by library consumers (56b95f32)
• allows defining hidden args and subcmds (2cab4d03, closes #231)
• Builder macro to assist with App/Arg/Group/SubCommand building (443841b0)
• Errors: allows consumers to write to stderr and exit on error (1e6403b6)

v1.3.2 (2015-09-08)

Documentation

• fixed ErrorKind docs (dd057843)
• ErrorKind: changed examples content (b9ca2616)

Bug Fixes

• fixes a bug where the help subcommand wasn't overridable (94003db4)

Features

• adds abiltiy not consume self when parsing matches and/or exit on help (94003db4)
• App: Added ability for users to handle errors themselves (934e6fbb)

v1.3.1 (2015-09-04)

Examples

• 17_yaml: fixed example (9b848622)

Performance

• changes ArgGroup HashSets to Vec (3cb4a48e)
• changes BTreeSet for Vec in some instances (baab2e3f)

v1.3.0 (2015-09-01)

Features

• YAML: allows building a CLI from YAML files (86cf4c45)
• ArgGroups: adds support for building ArgGroups from yaml (ecf88665)
• Subcommands: adds support for subcommands from yaml (e415cf78)

Documentation

• YAML: adds examples for using YAML to build a CLI (ab41d7f3)
• Args from YAML: fixes doc examples (19b348a1)
• Examples: adds better usage examples instead of having unused variables (8cbacd88)

Examples

• Add AppSettings example (12705079)

Bug Fixes

• Unified Help Messages: fixes a crash from this setting and no opts (169ffec1, closes #210)

v1.2.5 (2015-08-27)

Examples

• add custom validator example (b9997d1f)
• fix indentation (d4f1b740)

Features

• Args: allows opts and args to define a name for help and usage msgs (ad962ec4)

v1.2.4 (2015-08-26)

Bug Fixes

• Possible Values: fixes a bug where suggestions arent made when using --long=value format (3d5e9a6c, closes #192)

v1.2.3 (2015-08-24)

Bug Fixes

• App, Args: fixed subcommand reqs negation (b41afa8c, closes #188)

v1.2.2 (2015-08-23)

Bug Fixes

• fixed confusing error message, also added test for it (fc7a31a7)
• App: fixed requirmets overriding (9c135eb7)

v1.2.1 (2015-08-20)

Documentation

• README.md: updates for new features (16cf9245)

Features

• implements posix compatible conflicts for long args (8c2d48ac)
• added overrides to support conflicts in POSIX compatible manner (0b916a00)
• Args: allows defining POSIX compatible argument conflicts (d715646e)

Bug Fixes

• fixed links in cargo and license buttons (6d9837ad)

Performance

• Args and Apps: changes HashSet->Vec in some instances for increased performance (d0c3b379)

v1.2.0 (2015-08-15)

Bug Fixes

• fixed misspell and enum name (7df170d7)
• fixed use for clap crate (dc3ada73)

Documentation

• updates docs for new features (03496547)
• fixed docs for previous changes (ade36778)

Improvements

• AppSettings: adds ability to add multiple settings at once (4a00e251)

Features

• Replace application level settings with enum variants (618dc4e2)
• Args: allows for custom argument value validations to be defined (84ae2ddb, closes #170)

v1.1.6 (2015-08-01)

Bug Fixes

• fixes two bugs in App when printing newlines in help and subcommands required error (d63c0136)

v1.1.5 (2015-07-29)

Performance

• removes some unneeded allocations (93e915df)

v1.1.4 (2015-07-20)

Improvements

• Usage Strings displays a [--] when it may be helpful (86c3be85)

Bug Fixes

• Macros fixes a typo in a macro generated error message (c9195c5f)
• Type Errors fixes formatting of error output when failed type parsing (fe5d95c6)

v1.1.3 (2015-07-18)

Documentation

• updates README.md to include lack of color support on Windows (52f81e17)

Bug Fixes

• fixes formatting bug which prevented compiling on windows (9cb5dceb, closes #163)

v1.1.2 (2015-07-17)

Bug Fixes

• fixes a bug when parsing multiple {n} newlines inside help strings (6d214b54)

v1.1.1 (2015-07-17)

Bug Fixes

• fixes a logic bug and allows setting Arg::number_of_values() < 2 (42b6d1fc, closes #161)

v1.1.0 (2015-07-16)

Features

• allows creating unified help messages, a la docopt or getopts (52bcd892, closes #158)
• allows stating all subcommands should not have --version flags (336c476f, closes #156)
• allows setting version number to auto-propagate through subcommands (bc66d3c6, closes #157)

Improvements

• Help Strings properly aligns and handles newlines in long help strings (f9800a29, closes #145)

Performance

• Help Messages big performance improvements when printing help messages (52bcd892)

Documentation

• updates readme with new features (8232f7bb)
• fix incorrect code example for App::subcommand_required (8889689d)

v1.0.3 (2015-07-11)

Improvements

• Errors writes errors to stderr (cc76ab8c, closes #154)

Documentation

• README.md updates example help message to new format (0aca29bd)

v1.0.2 (2015-07-09)

Improvements

• Usage re-orders optional arguments and required to natural standard (dc7e1fce, closes #147)

v1.0.1 (2015-07-08)

Bug Fixes

• allows empty values when using --long='' syntax (083f82d3, closes #151)

v1.0.0 (2015-07-08)

Documentation

• README.md adds new features to what's new list (938f7f01)
• README.md use with_name for subcommands (28b7e316)

Features

• args can now be parsed from arbitrary locations, not just std::env::args() (75312528)

v1.0.0-beta (2015-06-30)

Features

• allows waiting for user input on error (d0da3bdd, closes #140)
• Help allows one to fully override the auto-generated help message (26d5ae3e, closes #141)

Documentation

• adds "whats new" section to readme (ff149a29)

Improvements

• removes deprecated functions in prep for 1.0 (274484df)

v0.11.0 (2015-06-17) - BREAKING CHANGE

Documentation

• updates docs to new version flag defaults (ebf442eb)

Features

• Help and Version default short for version is now -V but can be overridden (only breaks manual documentation) (BREAKING CHANGE eb1d9320)

v0.10.5 (2015-06-06)

Bug Fixes

• Global Args global arguments propogate fully now (1f377960, closes #137)

v0.10.4 (2015-06-06)

Bug Fixes

• Global Args global arguments propogate fully now (8f2c0160, closes #137)

v0.10.3 (2015-05-31)

Bug Fixes

• Global Args fixes a bug where globals only transfer to one subcommand (a37842ee, closes #135)

v0.10.2 (2015-05-30)

Improvements

• Binary Names allows users to override the system determined bin name (2191fe94, closes #134)

Documentation

• adds contributing guidelines (6f76bd0a)

v0.10.1 (2015-05-26)

Features

• can now specify that an app or subcommand should display help on no args or subcommands (29ca7b2f, closes #133)

v0.10.0 (2015-05-23)

Features

• Global Args allows args that propagate down to child commands (2bcc6137, closes #131)

Improvements

• Colors implements more structured colored output (d6c3ed54, closes #129)

Deprecations

• SubCommand/App several methods and functions for stable release (28b73855)

Documentation

• updates for deprecations and new features (743eefe8)

v0.9.2 (2015-05-20)

Bug Fixes

• help allows parent requirements to be ignored with help and version (52218cc1, closes #124)

v0.9.1 (2015-05-18)

Bug Fixes

• help fixes a bug where requirements are included as program name in help and version (08ba3f25)

v0.9.0 (2015-05-17)

Improvements

• usage usage strings now include parent command requirements (dd8f21c7, closes #125)
• args allows consumer of clap to decide if empty values are allowed or not (ab4ec609, closes #122)

Features

• subcommands
  • allows optionally specifying that no subcommand is an error (7554f238, closes #126)
  • subcommands can optionally negate parent requirements (4a4229f5, closes #123)

v0.8.6 (2015-05-17)

Bug Fixes

• args - can now be parsed as a value for an argument (bc12e78e, closes #121)

v0.8.5 (2015-05-15)

Bug Fixes

• macros makes macro errors consistent with others (0c264a8c, closes #118)

Features

• macros
  • arg_enum! and simple_enum! provide a Vec<&str> of variant names (30fa87ba, closes #119)
  • arg_enum! and simple_enum! auto-implement Display (d1219f0d, closes #120)

v0.8.4 (2015-05-12)

Bug Fixes

• suggestions --help and --version now get suggestions (d2b3b1fa, closes #116)

v0.8.3 (2015-05-10)

Bug Fixes

• usage groups unfold their members in usage strings (55d15582, closes #114)

Performance

• usage removes unneeded allocations (fd53cd18)

v0.8.2 (2015-05-08)

Bug Fixes

• usage strings positional arguments are presented in index order (eb0e374e, closes #112)

v0.8.1 (2015-05-06)

Bug Fixes

• subcommands stops parsing multiple values when subcommands are found (fc79017e, closes #109)

Improvements

• color reduces color in error messages (aab44cca, closes #110)
• suggestions adds suggested arguments to usage strings (99447414)

v0.8.0 (2015-05-06)

Bug Fixes

• did-you-mean for review (0535cfb0)
• Positional positionals were ignored if they matched a subcmd, even after '--' (90e7b081)
• help fixes bug where space between arg and help is too long (632fb115)

Features

• from_usage adds ability to add value names or num of vals in usage string (3d581976, closes #98)
• did-you-mean
  • gate it behind 'suggestions' (c0e38351)
  • for possible values (1cc2deb2)
  • for long flags (i.e. --long) (52a0b850)
  • for subcommands (06e869b5)
• Flags adds sugestions functionality (8745071c)
• errors colorizes output red on error (f8b26b13)

Improvements

• arg_enum allows ascii case insensitivity for enum variants (b249f965, closes #104)
• clap-test simplified make test invocation (d17dcb29)

Documentation

• README adds details about optional and new features (960389de)
• clap fix typos caught by codespell (8891d929)
• from_usage explains new usage strings with multiple values (05476fc6)

v0.7.6 (2015-05-05)

Improvements

• Options adds number of values to options in help/usage (c1c993c4)

Features

• from_usage adds ability to add value names or num of vals in usage string (ad55748c, closes #98)

Bug Fixes

• MultipleValues properly distinguishes between multiple values and multiple occurrences (dd2a7564, closes #99)
• help fixes tab alignment with multiple values (847001ff)

Documentation

• from_usage explains new usage strings with multiple values (5a3a42df)

v0.7.5 (2015-05-04)

Bug Fixes

• Options fixes bug where options with no value don't error out (a1fb94be)

v0.7.4 (2015-05-03)

Bug Fixes

• Options fixes a bug where option arguments in succession get their values skipped (f66334d0)

v0.7.3 (2015-05-03)

Bug Fixes

• RequiredValues fixes a bug where missing values are parsed as missing arguments (93c4a723)

Improvements

• ErrorMessages improves error messages and corrections (a29c3983)
• ArgGroups improves requirement and confliction support for groups (c236dc5f)

v0.7.2 (2015-05-03)

Bug Fixes

• RequiredArgs fixes bug where required-by-default arguments are not listed in usage (12aea961, closes #96)

v0.7.1 (2015-05-01)

Bug Fixes

• MultipleValues stops evaluating values if the max or exact number of values was reached (86d92c9f)

v0.7.0 (2015-04-30) - BREAKING CHANGE

Bug Fixes

• from_usage removes bug where usage strings have no help text (ad4e5451, closes #83)

Features

• MultipleValues
  • add support for minimum and maximum number of values (53f6b8c9)
  • adds support limited number and named values (ae09f05e)
  • implement shorthand for options with multiple values (6669f0a9)
• arg allow other types besides Vec for multiple value settings (BREAKING CHANGE 0cc2f698, closes #87)
• usage implement smart usage strings on errors (d77048ef, closes #88)

v0.6.9 (2015-04-29)

Bug Fixes

• from_usage removes bug where usage strings have no help text (ad4e5451, closes #83)

0.6.8 (2015-04-27)

Bug Fixes

• help change long help --long=long -> --long (1e25abfc)
• RequiredArgs required by default args should no longer be required when their exclusions are present (4bb4c3cc)

Features

• ArgGroups add ability to create arg groups (09eb4d98)

v0.6.7 (2015-04-22)

Bug Fixes

• from_usage fix bug causing args to not be required (b76129e9)

Features

• apps add ability to display additional help info after auto-gen'ed help msg (65cc259e)

v0.6.6 (2015-04-19)

Bug Fixes

• from_usage tabs and spaces should be treated equally (4fd44181)

Features

• macros.rs add macro to get version from Cargo.toml (c630969a)

v0.6.5 (2015-04-19)

Bug Fixes

• macros.rs fix use statements for trait impls (86e4075e)

v0.6.4 (2015-04-17)

Features

• macros add ability to create enums pub or priv with derives (2c499f80)

v0.6.3 (2015-04-16)

Features

• macros add macro to create custom enums to use as types (fb672aff)

v0.6.2 (2015-04-14)

Features

• macros
  • add ability to get mutliple typed values or exit (0b87251f)
  • add ability to get a typed multiple values (e243fe38)
  • add convenience macro to get a typed value or exit (4b7cd3ea)
  • add convenience macro to get a typed value (8752700f)

v0.6.1 (2015-04-13)

Bug Fixes

• from_usage trim all whitespace before parsing (91d29045)

v0.6.0 (2015-04-13)

Bug Fixes

• tests fix failing doc tests (3710cd69)

Features

• app add support for building args from usage strings (d5d48bcf)
• args add ability to create basic arguments from a usage string (ab409a8f)

v0.5.14 (2015-04-10)

Bug Fixes

• usage
  • remove unneeded space (51372789)
  • remove warning about unused variables (ba817b9d)

Features

• usage add ability to get usage string for subcommands too (3636afc4)

v0.5.13 (2015-04-09)

Features

• SubCommands add method to get name and subcommand matches together (64e53928)
• ArgMatches add method to get default usage string (02462150)

v0.5.12 (2015-04-08)

Features

• help sort arguments by name so as to not display a random order (f4b2bf57)

v0.5.11 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• flags fix bug not allowing users to specify -v or -h (90e72cff)

v0.5.10 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• help fix spacing when option argument has not long version (ca17fa49)

v0.5.9 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• positional args all previous positional args become required when a latter one is required (c14c3f31, closes #50)
• clap remove unstable features for Rust 1.0 (9abdb438)
• args improve error messages for arguments with mutual exclusions (18dbcf37, closes #51)

v0.5.8 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• option args fix bug in getting the wrong number of occurrences for options (82ad6ad7)
• help fix formatting for option arguments with no long (e8691004)
• flags add assertion to catch flags with specific value sets (a0a2a40f, closes #52)
• args improve error messages for arguments with mutual exclusions (bff945fc, closes #51)
• tests add missing .takes_value(true) to option2 (bdb0e88f)
• positional args all previous positional args become required when a latter one is required (343d47dc, closes #50)

v0.5.7 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• args fix bug in arguments who are required and mutually exclusive (6ceb88a5)

v0.5.6 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• help fix formatting of help and usage (28691b52)

v0.5.5 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• help fix formatting of help for flags and options (6ec10115)

v0.5.4 (2015-04-08)

Features

• help add '...' to indicate multiple values supported (297ddba7)

v0.5.3 (2015-04-08)

Features

• positionals
  • add assertions for positional args with multiple vals (b7fa72d4)
  • add support for multiple values (80784009)

v0.5.2 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• apps allow use of hyphens in application and subcommand names (da549dcb)

v0.5.1 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• args determine if the only arguments allowed are also required (0a09eb36)

v0.5.0 (2015-04-08)

Features

• args add support for a specific set of allowed values on options or positional arguments (270eb889)

v0.4.18 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• usage display required args in usage, even if only required by others (1b7316d4)

Features

• subcommands properly list subcommands in help and usage (4ee02344)

v0.4.17 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• tests remove cargo test from claptests makefile (1cf73817)

v0.4.16 (2015-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• option fix bug with option occurrence values (9af52e93)
• tests fix testing script bug and formatting (d8f03a55)

Features

• arg allow lifetimes other than 'static in arguments (9e8c1fb9)