OK ...so here is the story. There is bug in the 1.0 release of CLI
that I've encountered a couple of times now. This time while I was
writing a "javac" compatible command line interface for the jci
examples. So I thought I have a look at the source, but.... what a
mess! Just have a look here:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/commons/proper/cli/branches/
I wasn't even clear what to compile and use. So I did a "svn log" on
all 3 possible candidates.
svn log --stop-on-copy http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/
commons/proper/cli/branches/CLI_1_BRANCH/
svn log --stop-on-copy http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/
commons/proper/cli/branches/CLI_1_0_1_prepare/
svn log --stop-on-copy http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/
commons/proper/cli/branches/cli-1.0.x/
My interpretation (please correct me if I am wrong) is that
CLI_1_BRANCH was the original branch from the CVS migration. The
CLI_1_0_1_prepare even has still the old ASL 1.1 header. The
cli-1.0.x seems to have the "latest" changes and be the real thing. A
snapshot compile did in fact solve the problem I had with jci.
IMO we *have* to clean up this mess. I am not sure how much time I
can devote atm - but I will try to help. This has bitten me too often
now. So here is my proposal:
1) Let's do a bug fix release 1.0.1 from cli-1.0.x ASAP. cli-1.0.x
should become the official bug fix release branch for version 1.
2) Let's remove all other 1.x branches (CLI_1_0_1_prepare, CLI_1_BRANCH)
3) Let's remove the commons-configuration-integration and
RESEARCH_CLI_2_ROXSPRING branch. There was no activity within the
past 20 months unless I am mistaken. So I think we can safely say
these tries were dead-ends.
4) Let's remove the CLI_2_DEV_BRANCH. What's that needed for? Trunk
is now 2.x
5) Let's move the avalon-implementation branch into the sandbox. It's
a completely different implementation and has nothing to do with
commons-cli ...except sharing a common problem space maybe. Again not
much activity either.
Once that is done it might be worth having a look to get trunk on the
way. But well ...one step at a time :)
cheers
--
Torsten
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