AppConfig print usage

chicks has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Short: Has anyone written something that takes the definitions passed to AppConfig and produces a usage message?

Long: We have a user that has gone absolutely ape-sh*t with using AppConfig and has scripts (whether he should or not I don't know) that have fourty or fifty options. It has become a challenge all in itself to maintain docs to cover all of these options. So he came to me asking for an easier way since AppConfig had made his life so much easier. It seemed like something worthy of automation, but I couldn't find many examples of people even using AppConfig. Has anyone warped AppConfig to make printing a usage message easier?

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Re: AppConfig print usage by Velaki (Chaplain) on Sep 01, 2004 at 15:22 UTC
I found a CPAN link that shows something for usage, using a module called Pod::Usage combined with the AppConfig::Std module. It's a good example of what you might want to do with it. Hope this helps, -v "Perl. There is no substitute."	[reply]
Re^2: AppConfig print usage by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 01, 2004 at 16:13 UTC
AppConfig::Std does not autogenerate documentation, though, which is what the OP was after. There was some discussion about a related topic on the module-authors mailing list a while back. It was unconclusive, though, if memory serves. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]