CLI 2

[Ðavîd Låndïs <dl...@gmail.com>]

Can anyone tell me why the cli 2 project died? I would hope an update to the
website (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cli/) at least could be made
since it is a Jakarta project and should have some standards.

Re: CLI 2

[Oliver Heger <ol...@oliver-heger.de>]

Henri Yandell wrote:
> On 12/9/06, Ðavîd Låndïs <dl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me why the cli 2 project died? I would hope an update 
>> to the
>> website (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cli/) at least could be made
>> since it is a Jakarta project and should have some standards.
> 
> Those working on the cli2 version became inactive without getting a
> release out. It's been stuck since. I dug into it six months back -
> seems that cli2 is much preferred to cli2 as an API though when I sat
> and played with it I didn't find it much fun. After prodding it a bit,
> I ended up deciding that I didn't need a suits-everyone CLI engine, I
> just needed a way to pass configuration in and switched to Commons
> Configuration (using a .properties file). One of my todo's is to write
> a simple command-line implementation for Configuration (unless it has
> one... seemed that it didn't at the time).
> 
> Hen
> 
There is an open ticket in JIRA with a simple implementation of a 
command line configuration [1]. This could be a starting point.

Oliver

[1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-211

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Re: CLI 2

[Henri Yandell <fl...@gmail.com>]

On 12/9/06, Ðavîd Låndïs <dl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why the cli 2 project died? I would hope an update to the
> website (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cli/) at least could be made
> since it is a Jakarta project and should have some standards.

Those working on the cli2 version became inactive without getting a
release out. It's been stuck since. I dug into it six months back -
seems that cli2 is much preferred to cli2 as an API though when I sat
and played with it I didn't find it much fun. After prodding it a bit,
I ended up deciding that I didn't need a suits-everyone CLI engine, I
just needed a way to pass configuration in and switched to Commons
Configuration (using a .properties file). One of my todo's is to write
a simple command-line implementation for Configuration (unless it has
one... seemed that it didn't at the time).

Hen

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