PHP - What are the best/popular libraries for developing CLI apps/scripts?

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Published on 2010-04-15T18:01:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 18:03 UTC
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Many of the component libraries and toolkits I'm familiar with lack CLI-specific libraries (zend, kohana, etc..). Are there any libraries/tools that are designed specifically for developing CLI application (such as an abstraction of php's multi-threading library, pcntl/posix)?

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