On 3/16/07, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 :)
<snip/> Good stuff. -Rahul
cheers -- Torsten
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