I do love the color help output! Gary
On Apr 15, 2017 6:13 PM, "Remko Popma" <[email protected]> wrote: > JCommander is very, very good. Apart from the dependency thing, some > differences: > > Picocli has: > - strongly typed positional parameters (in JCommander only options are > strongly typed, positional parameters are a list of Strings) > - support for POSIX short options (so you can say `<command> -xvfInputFile` > as well as `<command> -x -v -f=InputFile`, JCommander only supports the > latter) > - an arity model that allows a minimum, maximum and variable number of > parameters, e.g, "1..*", "3..5" (JCommander only has minimum _or_ variable > arity, and these are weakly typed - Strings only) > > JCommander has: > - support for suppressing password echo to the console > - case-insensitive option name matching > - support for abbreviated options > - support for Map fields > - internationalization > > All of these are on the todo list, just haven't got around to them. > > But the biggest difference is the usage help. People have requested > customizable help in JCommander for years but it's not happening. > Picocli makes common customizations easy (annotations) and provides a Help > API for any further customization. > > The icing on the cake is the ANSI colors, for example > https://remkop.github.io/picocli/#_ansi_colors_and_styles > > > > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 8:15 Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I use JCommander a lot. Can you explain the difference? Most > applications I > > work on depend on other jars, so one more is no biggie. > > > > Thank you! > > Gary > > > > On Apr 15, 2017 7:25 AM, "Remko Popma" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Everyone, I would love your feedback on this: > > > > > > https://remkop.github.io/picocli/ > > > https://github.com/remkop/picocli > > > > > > It is heavily inspired by JCommander and Args4j but has improved > > > ergonomics, customizable help (with colors) and various other > > improvements. > > > > > > I hope this will be useful in the log4j-tools module, but any kind of > > > feedback would be great. > > > > > > Remko > > > > > >
