If Gary's issue isn't deemed a showstopper, this is my +1

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Gary Gregory
<ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com> wrote:
> Hello Hen:
>
> I've encountered a backwards compatibility issue in our application unit test 
> suite related to [CLI-162].
>
> With version 1.1, I can print call HelpFormatter#printHelp(String,Options) 
> without any problems without our options. When I replace 1.1 with 1.2 I get:
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Text too long for line 
> - throwing exception to avoid infinite loop [CLI-162]:
>
> Since the only thing that I changed is the CLI version, I assume that this 
> means that the HelpFormatter format changed between 1.1 and 1.2. Is that so?
>
> I worked around this by calling the HelpFormatter API with a width large 
> enough to avoid the RE. Sadly this makes CLI 1.2 not 100% binary compatible 
> with 1.1.
>
> Before I go any further and extract my code into a JIRA ticket, is this a 
> showstopper? If not, there's plenty of work I need to do before I spin my 
> wheels on extracting the code.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>

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