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Migrate FuseArgs away from using Optparse

Open lonetwin opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

The current implementation of FuseArgs extends Optparse, which is scheduled to be deprecated in favor of argparse. Although there isn't a schedule for when it would be deprecated, it might be a good idea to reimplement this using argparse.

Furthermore, imho, the current implementation is a bit unwieldy and inflexible. For instance, I have spent way too longer than I expected and yet have not been able to figure out how to implement the command line to support something like:

my_fuse_cmd.py <required parameter> <required path parameter> <mountpoint> [fuse options]

If there is interest in migrating away from optparse, and nobody is already working on it, I would like to attempt doing this.

If it is felt that this isn't a worthwhile effort for any reason, could someone guide me on how to create a Fuse instance such that the command-line above is supported (using FuseArgs, that is -- I obviously could split up the parsing of args I am interested in and those that get passed to the parent Fuse class ...but that would be ugly).

lonetwin avatar Feb 23 '20 15:02 lonetwin

@lonetwin this would totally be worthwhile, and I'd gladly accept a PR for it.

sdelafond avatar Jan 18 '21 09:01 sdelafond

@sdelafond I'm happy to start working on this. However, I was wondering whether this project intents to retain python 2.x support (afaict, 2.7 is still being supported according to the package classifiers in setup.py)

lonetwin avatar Jan 24 '21 16:01 lonetwin

Yes, I'd like to retain 2.x compatibility.

sdelafond avatar Jan 25 '21 06:01 sdelafond