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I needed **a** **d**amn **opt**ion parsing library.

Adopt is a simple UNIX-style option parser in Common Lisp, heavily influenced by
Python's optparse and argparse.

* **License:** MIT
* **Documentation:** <https://sjl.bitbucket.io/adopt/>
* **Mercurial:** <https://bitbucket.org/sjl/adopt/>
* **Git:** <https://github.com/sjl/adopt/>

Adopt aims to be a simple, robust option parser.  It can automatically print
help information and even generate `man` pages for you.

The test suite currently passes in SBCL, CCL, ECL, and ABCL on Ubuntu.  Further
testing is welcome.

Adopt is compatible with Quicklisp, but not *in* Quicklisp (yet).  You can clone
the repository into your [Quicklisp local-projects directory][local] for now.

The `adopt` system contains the core API and depends on [Bobbin][] and
[split-sequence][].

The `adopt/test` system contains the test suite, which depends on some other
systems.  You don't need to load this unless you want to run the unit tests.

[local]: https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/faq.html#local-project
[Bobbin]: https://github.com/sjl/bobbin
[split-sequence]: https://www.cliki.net/split-sequence