(Adding Romain to recipients) On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 13:48 Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Romain, > > I’m hoping for picocli to become the successor to Commons CLI (and to some > extent JCommander, args4j, jopt-simple etc). > > Please take a look at the project. (Nutshell: apps can avoid depending on > picocli.jar, have ANSI colors, shell autocompletion, subcommands, and > strongly typed options & positional parameters, all with almost zero code.) > > I admire your enthusiasm to blow new life into the Commons CLI project, > but I hope I can convince you to help evangelize picocli instead. > > I don’t see much enthusiasm in the Apache Commons community to maintain > the CLI project (I see many open bugs, most of them years old). On the > other hand, picocli is actively maintained: features are continuously added > and there are no outstanding bugs. If a bug is reported, the fix is usually > released within 48 hours or less. > > Picocli is a young project and it’s difficult to get traction against the > incumbents that have a large installed base. > > It would be great if you could help picocli get visibility in the Java > community. Your enthusiasm could make a massive difference! > > Looking forward to your response (either on-list or off-list, both are > fine). > > Remko > > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 5:13 Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I can take part of this one for this week end. Ill keep you up to date. >> >> Le lun. 28 mai 2018 21:55, Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> a écrit : >> >>> Well, certainly in the first instance it would be good to know how much >>> of the existing annotation functionality works as-is from Java. >>> >>> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 5:29 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau < >>> rmannibu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Do you think groovy community could try to extract it and do a PR to >>>> cli project? I already did it like 5 times (+ tomitribe-cli work) and would >>>> be happy to see some convergence here. Cli is a strong base for the parsing >>>> but api is too raw :(. >>>> >>>> >>>> Le lun. 28 mai 2018 20:46, Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> a écrit : >>>> >>>>> I've mentioned it on the cli dev list before: >>>>> >>>>> https://markmail.org/message/45jgonianj4sw7i4 >>>>> >>>>> You can probably use it all directly from Java apart from the >>>>> Closure-based converters (which are also possible from Java just a big >>>>> uglier). We could easily provide a lambda overload these days if there was >>>>> interest. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, Paul. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 4:31 AM, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Personally, I would invite everyone using Commons CLI to migrate to >>>>>> picocli <https://github.com/remkop/picocli>. >>>>>> But I may be biased... :-) >>>>>> >>>>>> Remko >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 2:06 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau < >>>>>> rmannibu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi guys >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Saw you added some annotations to write a cli in groovy cli, did you >>>>>>> try (or do you plan) to propose it to commons cli? It would be an >>>>>>> awesome >>>>>>> addition which affects more than groovy users IMHO and could unify part >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> the specific api you created. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Romain >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>
