Proposed argument changes to ntpq (fixing bug #319)

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Ian!

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 17:34:27 -0500
Ian Bruene via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> On 06/08/2017 05:29 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> > NTPsec does not use Python's getopt(). It uses argparse().   
> 
> So the real alternatives here are:
> 
> 1. Have the dual -l/-L flags

Yuck.  Non orthogonal to ntpd.  Allows conflicting options on same
command line.

> 2. Convert ntpq from getopt to argparse

Which I've wanted for a while, it is vastly better than Python getopt.
Python getopt confuses people that expect it to behave like POSIX
getopt.  arparse is already used in these programs:

    contrib/ntpheatusb
    contrib/ntpheat
    ntpclients/ntplogtemp
    ntpclients/ntpviz
    ntpclients/ntploggps

A big win is that argparse automagically creates usage() for you.  Another
is the ability to put options in a command file.

RGDS
GARY
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