docopt dependency is abandoned

[nebfield]

docopt hasn't received any updates since 2014, and only a source distribution is available on pypi. For my use case each dependency of crypt4gh required a built distribution (a wheel file) to work. I built a wheel file for docopt manually and everything is OK for my use case.

The docopt project appears to be abandoned and users are reporting compatibility problems with newer versions of python. I just wanted to mention this as you might run into problems in the future.

Thanks for your work developing this great package 🥳

[silverdaz]

docopt was used to parse the command line options. We can replace it with some other package if you prefer, it was just convenient to write the docs and have it built the relevant options/parsers.

There is always the built-in argparse package, do you feel like re-writting the command-line parser?

[silverdaz]

or just use docopt-ng ?