Command Line Parsing in .Net 4.0? – Um… Whoops!

InfoQ - .NET 4 Will Not Have a Command Line Parser

“…

We are not shipping System.Shell.CommandLine in .NET 4. This was based on an intern project from a couple of years back that was mistakenly public in the .NET Framework 4.0 CTP. It wasn't a design that we were happy with and has been removed and will not be present in the next preview release.

We have a *much better* command line parsing API, along the lines of Mono.Options, that we're planning to release on CodePlex later this year.

…”

This made me laugh (as one developer to another, as one who has made mistakes and am laughing with, not at, the team)… Doh!

You can almost hear the chatter from Microsoft, “Hey what’s this Command Line API in 4 that Miguel is jumping up and down about?”

“What command line API? There’s no Command line API in 4”

“Um… Yeah, there is… Right here…”

“Oh Crap! That’s So and So’s project, what the heck is THAT doing there?”

“You mean it’s not supposed to be there?”

“NO!”

“Oh”

 

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