Re: [cli] Downloading snapshots

2009-03-24 Thread Roland Roberts
Siegfried Goeschl wrote: deployed the current snapshot to http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository/org/apache/commons/commons-cli/2.0-SNAPSHOT/ Thanks! roland -- PGP Key ID: 66 BC 3B CD Roland B. Roberts, PhD RL Enterprises

Re: [CLI1.x] help option doesn't work if there is a required option

2009-03-19 Thread Roland Roberts
Michael Heuer wrote: Hello, My use case is -h,--help text prints to STDOUT and command line errors print to STDERR. [...] But if there is a missing required option, the help part is unreachable, since a MissingOptionException is thrown Yes, it does and in that case you need to handle the

Re: [CLI1.x] help option doesn't work if there is a required option

2009-03-19 Thread Roland Roberts
Oops, I just realized that my example was with CLI 2.0, but the idea is the same. roland -- PGP Key ID: 66 BC 3B CD Roland B. Roberts, PhD RL Enterprises rol...@rlenter.com6818 Madeline Court rol...@astrofoto.org

[cli] Downloading snapshots

2009-03-19 Thread Roland Roberts
It's been a year since I last downloaded a snapshot of commons-cli-2.0, which I have been happily using, but I thought I would check back for a newer copy. Unfortunately, my memory is failing, no doubt due to advancing age and I can't remember (or find) where do get a copy. Can someone give

[cli2] Negative number arguments seen as options

2008-05-20 Thread Roland Roberts
I just discovered that an option that takes an argument can't provide a negative value, --value -2 is seen as option value followed by option 2. This is true even if I use NumberValidator; I tried that thinking it might provide a hint to the parser. 259 roland cd commons-cli-2.0 260 roland

Re: [cli2] Negative number arguments seen as options

2008-05-20 Thread Roland Roberts
James Carman wrote: Can you quote it? No. If I do foo --value -2 it works but then 'new Integer( -2) throws NumberException; it doesn't like leading spaces. I can work around that to provide some way to get in negative values, but it just looks like a bug to me. Particularly since I