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Emmanuel Bourg updated CLI-9:
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Summary: CLI cant parse ANT option set as claimed in official usage
guide (was: [cli] CLI cant parse ANT option set as claimed in official usage
guide)
Fix Version/s: 1.1
(was: 2.0)
Component/s: (was: CLI-2.x)
This was actually fixed in CLI 1.1 (related to CLI-14)
> CLI cant parse ANT option set as claimed in official usage guide
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> Key: CLI-9
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-9
> Project: Commons CLI
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.0
> Environment: Operating System: other
> Platform: Other
> Reporter: Ben Hutchison
> Fix For: 1.1
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> In the main usage guide to the CLI tool, it goes through a long example of
> how
> to create the rules to parse the option set of ANT. Unfortunately:
> 1. If you follow the instructions given, the resultant parser with not be
> able
> to parse the option set example given in the docs. The docs are simply wrong
> and could not have been validated.
> 2. No matter what you do, the CLI software is too inflexible to *ever* parse
> the ANT option set (How dumb is that??), because it insists that all options
> that have a "-" prefix are one character long.
> 3. The help formater doesnt work as documented on the usage page either -
> (due
> to a bug it took just a minute to find) it only prints usage help for options
> which have a single character descriptions, despite single char descriptions
> not being mandatory.
> In all, Ive been extremely dissappointed and surprised that marginally tested
> software of such poor quality and design, whose own scant docs blatantly dont
> work as described, can make it into such a position of influence.
> I spent about an hour comparing the 3 OS Java command line parsing libs
> yesterday, and (in part because of the (increasingly devalued) "Jakarta
> Commons" brand) sadly it seems I put my money on the wrong horse.
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