Support for global options [moved]

[trentm]

This is Issue 10 moved from a Google Code project. Added by 2009-05-22T16:54:20.000Z by [email protected]. Please review that bug for more context and additional comments, but update this bug.

Original labels: Type-Enhancement, Priority-High, Usability

Original description

To add global options, one can write code like this:

    def get_optparser(self):
        p = cmdln.Cmdln.get_optparser(self)
        p.add_option('-E', '--environment', dest='env',
                     help='path to virtualenv environment to use')
        p.set_defaults(env=None)
        return p

Wouldn't it be better to do this by using the same `@cmdln.option`
decorator but on the class itself rather than a method?

    @cmdln.option('-E', '--environment',  ...)
    class Foo(cmdln.Cmdln):
        ...

Thoughts?

(this would affect issue 2)