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…_path, utils.sys.RUN_STOP_GRACE_SECONDS) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Grigori Fursin <gfursin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Grigori Fursin <gfursin@gmail.com>
… a value, a control flag takes a word, "--" refused in words
Four small corrections of the parser (cmeta/utils/cli.py) and of the call of a command (cmeta/core.py), none of
which changes a command that worked:
- a bare key=value is a flag only when the part before the first "=" looks like a key (a letter or "_", then
letters, digits, "_", ".", ",", "-"): `cx host run h "echo a=b"`, a URL with a query string or a Python
one-liner with "==" was cut into a parameter named by its first words and is one positional argument now;
every key that worked (name=v, a.b=v, tags,=a,b, name=John Smith, path=C:\x\y) works as before;
- a negative number (-5, -1.5) is a positional argument, not a flag named "5"; --delta=-5 was and is a value;
- the engine's own control flags (--quiet, --verbose, --json, --debug, ...) given a word (--quiet=yes, --json=no)
took the value converted for the flag before them or failed with "cannot access local variable
'converted_value'" - a typo in check_params; they read yes/no, true/false, on/off, 1/0 and refuse another word
by name;
- the text after "--" reaches a command as `unparsed`; a keyword-style command without such a parameter (and
without **kwargs) says '"<category> <command>" takes no arguments after "--"' instead of Python's TypeError.
The docs (using-cmeta.md, common-commands.md, the README, the use-cmeta-cli skill) said "--key value" was a form:
it never was ("--key value" is the flag --key and a positional value) and they say so now, with the rule for a
bare key=value, negative numbers and "--".
Tests: tests/core_tests/test_cli_parse_table.py - the table of every token kind (36 rows), every bool control flag
with every word and a wrong one, a flag given a word after another flag, the three command styles with text after
"--" (a parameter, **kwargs, a dict), and the command line end to end in another process. On the code before this
change 27 of its 56 tests fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Grigori Fursin <gfursin@gmail.com>
The version in every file that carries it (docs/releasing.md, step 2); release date 2026-10-13. The development version 0.35.2.1 is released as 0.36.0 - a new minor version for a change of the command line itself: free text with "=" stays text, a negative number is a value, the engine's own control flags take a word, text after "--" is refused in words by a command that does not read it; and the native messaging hosts for cMeta add-ons. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Grigori Fursin <gfursin@gmail.com>
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CHANGELOG.md(## 0.36.0). A new minor version for a change of the command line itself:key=valueis a flag only when the part before=looks like a key, so free text with=("echo a=b", a URL with a query string, a one-liner with==) stays one positional argument; a negative number (-5) is a value, not a flag; the engine's own control flags take a word (--quiet=yes,--json=no); text after--reaches the commands that read it and is refused in words by the others. Every key form that worked keeps its result: pinned by a table test, a 20,000-case comparison of the old and the new parser, and a scan of every realcxcommand line in the maintainer's repositories.--key valuenever was a form (it is the flag--keyand a positionalvalue); the rules for a barekey=value, negative numbers and--.cx utils native-host-install|check|run).Every commit is signed off. Please merge with a merge commit (not a squash), so that
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