Doing this had occurred to me too but I ended up deciding against it, kind of for the reasons you describe that people largely don't like using Boost program options, and the SDK examples are supposed to be usable as kind of cookie cutter copy-paste projects that someone would then build their own code on top of, in which case they probably would just use another argument-parsing library.

There is prior art for using boost::program_options in the C++ SDK examples, so I'm pretty good with it. And I'd prefer that we used it rather than introducing a new dependency. It may not be a perfect library but it does just fine.

I don't feel strongly about this and don't have context in this repo, one of you needs to make the decision unilaterally

I think it is @lia-viam's call either way.

Hahah let's leave this one aside then but thanks for the PR anyway!

Oh wait just saw @acmorrow 's comment saying we already do this elsewhere! I think we can merge this in that case

@abe-winter or anyone else, feel free to merge this when the build passes, I just merged main since it was blocking

can you approve? repo is locked to sdk team I think