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CLI cant parse ANT option set as claimed in official usage guide

           Summary: CLI cant parse ANT option set as claimed in official
                    usage guide
           Product: Commons
           Version: 1.0 Alpha
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: CLI
        AssignedTo: commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: ben_hutchison@yahoo.com


In the main usage guide to the CLI tool, it goes through a long example of how 
to create the rules to parse the option set of ANT. Unfortunately:

1. If you follow the instructions given, the resultant parser with not be able 
to parse the option set example given in the docs. The docs are simply wrong 
and could not have been validated.

2. No matter what you do, the CLI software is too inflexible to *ever* parse 
the ANT option set (How dumb is that??), because it insists that all options 
that have a "-" prefix are one character long. 

3. The help formater doesnt work as documented on the usage page either - (due 
to a bug it took just a minute to find) it only prints usage help for options 
which have a single character descriptions, despite single char descriptions 
not being mandatory.


In all, Ive been extremely dissappointed and surprised that marginally tested 
software of such poor quality and design, whose own scant docs blatantly dont 
work as described, can make it into such a position of influence.

I spent about an hour comparing the 3 OS Java command line parsing libs 
yesterday, and (in part because of the (increasingly devalued) "Jakarta 
Commons" brand) sadly it seems I put my money on the wrong horse.

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