[ANN] Announcing gemcert, a simple certificate generator

[lel]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 04:53:43PM -0400, lel wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:33:59PM +0300, Hannu Hartikainen wrote:
> > Cool! This is very welcome; I scratch my head every time I use openssl.
> > 
> > I personally greatly prefer GNU argument conventions, ie. dual dashes for
> > long arguments (--server) and short single-dash versions of the most common
> > arguments (-s). Even if you don't want to implement this now, changing the
> > docs to use the dual dash versions would make changing later possible.
> > 
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Argument-Syntax.html
> > 
> > I'd also like if the generated filenames contained the domain name. Nice
> > for vhost configurations.
> > 
> > -Hannu
> 
> For context, it's this way because solderpunk is using the go `flag` package,
> which doesn't support GNU flags. Writing it that way would require pulling in
> some external dependency, and probably doing some rewrites of the CLI flag
> parsing.
> 
> ~ lel

I sent this a bit early, I also meant to say:

... and honestly I don't think it's worth the effort and dependencies just for
the added feature of making the user type an extra dash before their arguments.

Sorry for the doublepost.

~ lel