Stefan, Jan, Thanks for your response. Understood about avoiding the dependency. As Matt pointed out, there are ways around this - picocli is a single source file for example), but at the end of the day what matters most is how much value this would add.
I thought there was a request for this feature from Ant users but if that’s not the case or there are already alternative solutions then it’s not as good a fit as I imagined. No worries, all good! Thanks again for getting back to me! Remko > On Nov 19, 2018, at 1:23, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > FWIW, picocli is small enough to simply shade into your project. We do it > in Log4j with some CLI tooling that’s included. > >> On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 09:19, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Hi Remko >> >>> On 2018-11-15, Remko Popma wrote: >>> >>> Would there be any interest in using picocli ( >>> https://github.com/remkop/picocli) as the command line parser in >>> `org.apache.tools.ant.Main`? >> >> Ant's core has zero dependencies and we value this property. >> >>> Picocli has support for @-files (https://picocli.info/#AtFiles ) to >> handle >>> cases where the length of the command line exceeds the OS limitations. (I >>> believe there was a recent request for this feature on the user list.) >> >> I'm pretty sure Picocli is great. >> >> Personally I wouldn't want to add it just to enable an edge case. Most >> people don't have Ant command lines long enough to even make them think >> about @-files. -propertyfile helps with the case of many -D options and >> then there always is the option to set the ANT_ARGS environment >> variable. >> >> It should be possible to provide a Picocli ArgumentProcessor that people >> who need additional features can plug into their builds and activate, >> though. >> >> Cheers >> >> Stefan >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >> >> -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
