[PATCH]: Optional explanation for options

[Martin Pool]

On 12/09/05, John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:

> Sounds like you and I were thinking the same thing. Or at least
> something similar. I took one more step from you, to say that when the
> user supplies an Option, it checks to see if there is a default option
> with the same name, and pulls all the defaults from it.

Yeah, I can definitely imagine someone wanting to take a --revision
object with the usual semantics but just a different help string.

> I can see both sides, so I mostly wanted to raise it up for discussion.

Me too.  But then I thought: rather than reinvent Python subclassing,
why not just use it when necessary?  i.e. commonly used options like
Revision can be defined as a RevisionOption class, which can then
provide defaults.

-- 
Martin