I'm really beginning to understand why Peter Donald got so upset about
the existence of Jakarta-commons, when there is already Avalon's
"excalibur" for utility code.
Has anyone here even *looked* at Avalon lately?
jakarta-avalon/src/java/org/apache/avalon/excalibur/cli
--Jeff
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 04:59:15PM +0100, James Strachan wrote:
> I contacted Bob and he's happy to donate his work to Jakarta Commons and to
> maintain it here. (He's already a Jakarta committer).
> I've worked with Bob quite a bit over the last year on XML and XPath related
> projects. I'll also volunteer to help out if I'm needed.
>
> Since the werken-opt package is quite stable, how about we create a new
> "options" project and put it into jakarta-commons, rather than the sandbox
> first? I'll be happy to help out doing this and helping migrate packages and
> adding the ASF licence.
>
> So I'd like to call a vote to add "options" into Jakarta Commons proper
> (assuming its got ASF licences and in package "org.apache.commons.options".
>
> +1
>
> James
>
> From: "Jason van Zyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 11:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Command line API
>
>
> > Hristo Stoyanov wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi-,
> > > Command line argument processing is a very common
> > > thing. s it not a good idea to move the Command line
> > > API from avalon to jakarta-commons, or maybe
> > > incorporate the "gnu.getopt" package ...
> >
> > If you're interested in command line processing someone
> > should contact Bob McWhirter. Here's the package:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/werken-opt/
> >
> > The project is under a BSD style license and Bob
> > would probably be ammenable to throwing his command
> > line tool in the sandbox.
> >
> > I can contact him if no else wants to.
>
>
>
>
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