I think it's a showstopper - that was a fix due to infinite looping
causing an OOM. Sounds like you have a test case that isn't covered by
the current tests.

Hen

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:33 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henri Yandell [mailto:flame...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 1:01 PM
> To: Commons Developers List
> Subject: [VOTE] CLI 1.2 release (RC2)
>
> Apologies for the revote. I've added a note to the release page to
> check the NOTICE file's copyright year.
>
> There should be no difference between the two other than the RC1->RC2
> in the pom and the updated year in the NOTICE file.
>
>
> Tag:
>
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/cli/tags/cli-1.2-RC2
>
> Site remains unchanged:
>
> http://people.apache.org/~bayard/cli-1.2-rc1
>
> Binaries:
>
> http://people.apache.org/builds/commons/cli/1.2/RC1/staged/commons-cli/commons-cli/1.2/
>
> [ ] +1 release it
> [ ] +0 go ahead I don't care
> [ ] -1 no, do not release it because
>
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