How do I install it?

[snowindy]

You created a sophisticated tool and it has beautiful declarative syntax.

Why not allow people to use with NORMAL installation instructions? Really, I just don't know how to install it. I tried ./configure; make; make install and it fails.

I tried ./autogen.sh and it fails

I am testing that you have the required versions of autoconf
and automake...

checking for autoconf >= 2.60 ... yes (version 2.69)
checking for automake >= 1.6 ...
  You must have automake 1.6 or newer installed to compile Bash Optparse.
  Download the appropriate package for your distribution,
  or get the source tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/

Please install/upgrade the missing tools and call me again.

While

root@ip-10-155-163-56:~/bash_optparse# automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
       and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.

[carlobaldassi]

It is in fact intended to be installed in the normal way with configure/make/make install (and it used to work for me last time I tried).
Anyway, I have now updated the installation scripts. Can you test it now and see if the problem is fixed?
(automake.sh should recognize automake 1.14 now).