Would there be any interest in using picocli (
https://github.com/remkop/picocli) as the command line parser in
`org.apache.tools.ant.Main`?
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
Thank you for your suggestion.
But I think we shouldn’t add a new dependency for replacing code, that works
and was touched last time 8 months ago ('just' introducing some Java8 stuff),
then 2 years ago (no FileInput/OutputStream::new) then 4 years ago ...
So maintenance is no real point here.
Last August there was a feature request on the Ant user mailing list to
support argument files (also called @-files):
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-user/201808.mbox/%3c5d285fc05679a441acf34a90905bfa923d6c3...@gbedbp01.chp.co.uk%3e
Picocli has support for @-files/argument files (
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