On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Thomas Neidhart <thomas.neidh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 11/24/2013 02:37 PM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > > Le 24/11/2013 13:09, Thomas Neidhart a écrit : > > > >> And merge the cli2 source into cli trunk afterwards. > > > > err... no, cli2 is a dead end imho. There is no point designing a new > > incompatible API, JCommander has already filled that spot. > > > > I would rather focus on incremental improvements over the current API. > > well, I never looked at cli2, but I thought substantial work has gone > into it on which we could continue. > > Some time ago, I played around with various cli implementations, > including jcommander, args4j and airline. > > All of them have their strengths but also limitations. > > I ended up using jcommander but did the help printing myself via > reflection to better align it with the gnu style help which I wanted to > mimick. > > So I think there is potential to come up with a cli library that really > combines the strength of all the other competitors and is still very > flexible to use. But it depends if there is really a community interest > for this as there are already so many alternatives available that are > available right now and people are using them. > I took a brief look at airline as well and picked JCommander. For JCommander, feedback, progress on issues and new features is glacial. I'd love to have a JCommander-like component in [cli2 or 3] so we can all drive it faster, better, stronger ;) Doing 'better' than JCommander will be subjective but we can make the features broader, like the help style mentioned. Gary > Thomas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
