gflags

The gflags package contains a library that implements commandline flags processing. As such it's a replacement for getopt(). It has increased flexibility, including built-in support for C++ types like string, and the ability to define flags in the source file in which they're used.

NEWS: gflags 1.1 released

I've just released gflags 1.1. It has only minor changes fdrom gflags 1.0 (see the ChangeLog for details). The major change is that I moved to a new system for creating .deb and .rpm files. This allows me to create x86_64 deb and rpm files.

In the process of moving to this new system, I noticed an inconsistency: the tar.gz and .rpm files created libraries named libgflags.so, but the deb file created libgoogle-gflags.so. I have fixed the deb file to create libraries like the others. I'm no expert in debian packaging, but I believe this has caused the package name to change as well. Please let me know (at google-gflags@googlegroups.com) if this causes problems for you -- especially if you know of a fix! I would be happy to change the deb packages to add symlinks from the old library name to the new (libgoogle-gflags.so -> libgflags.so), but that is beyond my knowledge of how to make .debs.

If you've tried to install a .rpm or .deb and it doesn't work for you, let me know. I'm excited to finally have 64-bit package files, but there may still be some wrinkles in the new system to iron out.

OLD NEWS: gflags 1.0 released!

gflags 1.0rc2 was out for a few weeks without any issues, so gflags 1.0 is now released. This is much like gflags 0.9. The major change is that the .h files have been moved from /usr/include/google to /usr/include/gflags. While I have backwards-compatibility forwarding headeds in place, please rewrite existing code to say

   #include <gflags/gflags.h>

instead of

   #include <google/gflags.h>

I've kept the default namespace to google. You can still change with with the appropriate flag to the configure script (./configure --help to see the flags). If you have feedback as to whether the default namespace should change to gflags, which would be a non-backwards-compatible change, send mail to google-gflags@googlegroups.com!

Version 1.0 also has some neat new features, like support for bash commandline-completion of help flags. See the ChangeLog for more details.

If I don't hear any bad news for a few weeks, I'll release 1.0-final.