Consider merging in optimist_xl

[nanobowers]

Would kindly suggest to merge in the changes in the Optimist_XL gem, which is a feature enhancement fork. Also, it addresses #88 and #97, plus some closed-but-unresolved issues.

https://github.com/nanobowers/optimist_xl

[Fryguy]

@kbrock - Let's review: https://github.com/nanobowers/optimist_xl#extended-features-unavailable-in-the-original-optimist-gem

[Fryguy]

This is awesome work @nanobowers! I am kind of swamped coming back from break, but hopefully I can eyeball this in the coming week.

[kbrock]

Thank you for your patience and thanks for forking this to show us how many of your great ideas work

[Fryguy]

@nanobowers If you're up for it, can you make some PRs to get the core functionality of optimist XL into optimist? As you said in the other PR, not every feature in optimist XL is for everyone, but I do believe most features are for everyone. If you can make a PR per feature we can debate those independently, and I would presume most would make it after discussion.

[Fryguy]

Alternatively maybe we can resurrect (or redo) #116 . I can't recall what we stalled on...something about chronic gem it seems?

[nanobowers]

Alternatively maybe we can resurrect (or redo) #116 . I can't recall what we stalled on...something about chronic gem it seems?

@Fryguy IIRC I caused a breaking change due to chronic support. I have never been a fan of the hidden "if you happen to have this other gem installed you get completely different behavior" and pulled it into a separate file so one would have to require "optimist/chronic" to explicitly call out that chronic style behavior was desired. But then that violated the single-file rule which has existed since the beginning... I'll close this and #116 and piece-part out a bunch of PRs.