2015-05-03 19:21 GMT+02:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>:

> The new class DefaultParser does not use generics to define the options
> List, that is suspicious. Looking closer, the list can hold a mix of
> OptionGroup and String instances. Really? Looking at Options I see the list
> defined as List<Object>. This avoids compiler warnings but is nasty. This
> is probably what we have inherited from this very old code base. We should
> at least perpetuate this to DefaultParser's List as a List<Object>.
>

Don't be shy ;-) If this is a blocker for you, please vote -1.

Asking this the other way around: Would you be willing to vote +1 on a
second RC if the option list in DefaultParser is generified?

Thank you!
Benedikt


>
> I switched a couple of years ago to using annotation based CLI processing
> with JCommander. I'd like to come back to Commons for CLI, but not I do not
> see that happening until a very different CLI2 emerges.
>
> This is not the thread for discussing a CLI2 of course... ;-)
>
> Gary
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have fixed quite a few bugs and added some significant enhancements
> > since CLI 1.2 was released and the Groovy Project is asking for a new
> > release, so I would like to release CLI 1.3. The most notable change is
> the
> > introduction of a new API for creating Option instances.
> >
> > CLI 1.3 RC1 is available for review here:
> >   https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/cli/ (svn revision
> 8797)
> >
> > Maven artifacts are here:
> >
> >
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-1090/
> >
> > Details of changes since 1.2 are in the release notes:
> >   https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/cli/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
> >   http://people.apache.org/~britter/cli-1.3-RC1/changes-report.html
> >
> > I have tested this with JDK 6, 7 and 8 using maven 3.
> >
> > The tag is here:
> >   http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/cli/tags/cli-1.3-RC1/
> > (svn
> > revision 1677410)
> >
> > Site:
> >   http://people.apache.org/~britter/cli-1.3-RC1/
> >   (note some *relative* links are broken and the 1.2 directories are not
> > yet created - these will be OK once the site is deployed)
> >
> > Clirr Report (compared to 1.2):
> >   http://people.apache.org/~britter/cli-1.3-RC1/clirr-report.html
> >
> > RAT Report:
> >   http://people.apache.org/~britter/cli-1.3-RC1/rat-report.html
> >
> > KEYS:
> >   https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/KEYS
> >
> > Please review the release candidate and vote. This vote will close no
> > sooner that 72 hours from now, i.e. after 06-May 2015, 17:30 CEST.
> >
> > [ ] +1 Release these artifacts
> > [ ] +0 OK, but...
> > [ ] -0 OK, but really should fix...
> > [ ] -1 I oppose this release because...
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Benedikt
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
>
>
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