BaseOptionAttribute LongName and ShortName

[TheColonel2688]

Can the Accessibility Level on ShortName and LongName in BaseOptionAttribute be changed to public? or at least public get?

I would like to use those attributes in my code.

[Nick-Lucas]

Hi @TheColonel2688

I don't see any reason they couldn't be public get, private set, but I'd definitely question the use case?

Is there some functionality that EntryPoint isn't providing, which you feel you need to implement in your app? If it's really unique to you then go ahead and open a pull request :)

Full disclosure: I'm not actively maintaining EntryPoint right now, as I'm not using it on any current projects, though I'm content it's been stable and production ready for a long time. I'll also make time for releasing an update if you have a PR for it. I'm happy to offer support and might even be able to maintain it more actively in the next few months.

[TheColonel2688]

Basically, I just need to get the LongName as a string. I am having my app register itself as a service, so I need to pass the actual option flag string for my run-as-service flag to windows so that when it calls my app and runs in service mode.

yes, I could just give it a string literal but I figured it would be cleaner to get it for the OptionsAttribute so that if I change it in the CLIArguemtn definitions class it will auto-update.

[Nick-Lucas]

Thanks for the PR. I've merged it and will try to get out 1.3.0 shortly. Hopefully all the CI nuts and bolts still work after a couple years away!

It certainly doesn't hurt to make these attributes readable, so I have no objections here :)

[Nick-Lucas]

Okay that's deployed: https://www.nuget.org/packages/EntryPoint/

[TheColonel2688]

Sweet thank you sir.