Claude Warren created CLI-339:
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Summary: Help formatter framework is hard to extend.
Key: CLI-339
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-339
Project: Commons CLI
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Help formatter
Affects Versions: 1.9.0
Reporter: Claude Warren
The current HelpFormatter implementation makes it difficult to extend and in
some cases reuse components. The goal here is to create a help formatting
framework that:
* Supports all the current format configuration options
* Is easily tested
* provides ability to easily define and format the options table. This is the
section of the help that currently lists the short & long option with arg name
as the first column, the optional "since" column, and a description column that
may contain deprecation information.
* Provides the ability to easily add additional tables to the output. This
implies access to the text wrapping functionality and formatting functionality.
* Ability to output multiple formats. Current implementation only supports
text output. There has been
[discussion|https://lists.apache.org/thread/2powlgz6msqk6hqql55oo0fpgvb4x9kz]
of desire for several other formats.
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