On 19/01/2016 16:54, Chris Hegarty wrote:
GNU-style options for Jar Tool
Prompted by the impending addition of new options for both multi-release jars
and jigsaw, it became immediately obvious that we were running out of single
characters that could be used to represent these new options. I'd like to
propose an update to the Jar Tool CLI to accept GNU-style options ( all short
forms being compatible with the existing current options ), so that we can
evolve the CLI in a reasonable fashion going forward.
This looks quite good. For me at least then I know it will take time to
get used to typing --file=FILE.
The only option that I wonder about is --pack200 as it hints that it
does pack200 compression. Should it be --normalize instead? The help
output might not even need to mention pack200.
The only other comment is something that Stephen Colebourne brought up
on jigsaw-dev a few months ago. The updated `jar --help` is too long.
The useful options scroll up to leave the user looking at options under
the "Compatibility Interface" heading. I wonder if it would be better
to move this to --help:compat.
-Alan.
