RE: [CLI] some thoughts

[Berin Loritsch <bl...@apache.org>]

> From: John Keyes [mailto:jbjk@mac.com] 
> 
> I have been mucking about with some changes that would 
> reflect some of the ideas Berin has mentioned over the last 
> couple of weeks.
> 
> I do like this new model of processing Options but I would 
> like to also maintain the previous model as I like the idea 
> of the flexibility.
> 
> So from my experiments I can support the current API and also 
> support the new style suggested i.e. the Avalon approach.

:) Yep.  In fact, I think Avalon's can support both approach's
as well.


> The only casualty of this change is the withArgs( int ) 
> method, which allows the user to specify the number of 
> arguments that an Option can have.  This feature was only 
> added last week and I added it because I misunderstood the 
> request from Berin for support of the property style Option values.
> 
> The withCharSeparator method on OptionBuilder can support 
> this. Instead of using withArgs( int ) the withCharSeparator 
> can be used to exclusively process these properties.  The 
> default char separator is '='.  This can be changed for path 
> properties ':' or ';'.
> 
> The new implementation would also mean the code that splits 
> the option values now resides in the Option as opposed to the 
> individual parsers.
> 
> When this is complete I think we are set for a beta release.


Excellent!  When we have a release, I will propose to the Avalon
group to deprecate Avalon CLI in favor of Commons CLI.



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