Add options

[wejn]

Yet another way of setting options (turns out I'm not the only one needing this).

My approach allows for string/symbol shortcuts for option names.

Oh, and no, I'm not going to be adding readme and whatnot; mainly because @qrush ignores pull requests for 3 months so it'd be waste of time.

I'm just posting this in case someone looks in open pull requests and finds this helpful. I'll be using my local add-options branch, thankyouverymuch.

[raganwald]

I'm not going to be adding readme and whatnot; mainly because @qrush ignores pull requests for 3 months so it'd be waste of time.

So, if @qrush addresses this in two months, it would be a 33% improvement in response time?

[wejn]

So, if @qrush addresses this in two months, it would be a 33% improvement in response time?

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

[lrz]

As far as I know, he does not owe you a damn thing.

[wejn]

As far as I know, he does not owe you a damn thing.

Hm, it might be because english is not my mother's tongue but I don't see this implication anywhere.

I'd be happy if you could enlighten me where I made it. Seriously.

[lrz]

Sorry. What I meant is that this is an open-source project. People tend to work on them after their daily job, on a voluntary basis. When people don't reply it's usually because they don't have time, not because they ignore you. And making fun of the maintainer is not really helpful. A personal "hey, can you look at my patch" email would have been a better idea (maybe you did that, I don't know).

[wejn]

OK, I get your point -- I did not expect the message to be taken like this. Oops.

I certainly don't think @qrush is obliged to merge my pull req (there are two other pull reqs with similar functionality already under way).

I just wanted to make clear I'm sending this pull req in case someone finds my approach helpful and I'm not crossing my fingers for any merge; early or otherwise. And on the other hand, I don't intend to contribute more than I did, mainly because it might be in vain.

Hope this clears it up. Certainly no harm was intended.