I'm going to clip some of this into JIRA issues where I might find it again [;<).
-- replying below to -- From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 13:23 To: [email protected] Cc: Dennis Hamilton Subject: Re: Apache Commons is not really an option in corinthia [ ... ] Take a look at Apache APR - http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/1.5/group__apr__getopt.html Lots of other portable goodies. When I mentioned Commons I was thinking APR! <orcmid> I was thinking of Commons CLI. It is the data structure and the rules for it that "steer" the command-line parser (and also provide the brief help page) that interest me. I like Commons CLI for how it handles the line and think that perhaps that structure is much easier to localize too. (The usage can be localized but I would be cagy about localizing the option words.) APR is all C. I had been looking for that but I forgot the name of it. I think I was turned off the first time I looked at it because it redoes all of the memory allocation and various dynamic-memory structures. I am willing to take another look. It is designed to do what Corinthia wants out of "Platform" but has gone deeper into what is involved, I'd say. The platforms that APR has worked with are worth checking on. I suspect that getting a Portable C (i.e., standard) version is more likely to be found in via FreeBSD or OpenBSD. Side Question: Does POI use Apache Commons Compress and if so is that API found very suitable?. </orcmid> Regards, Dave [ ... ]
