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From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 1/1] jgit: create a tag command
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:31:17 +0200
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Cc: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>,
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To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
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l=C3=B6rdagen den 12 juli 2008 05.42.06 skrev Shawn O. Pearce:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >=20
> > > > I think we are at the point where we need to either write a
> > > > #@!*(!@(! command line option parser, import one, or stop writi=
ng
> > > > command line programs.  I would certainly appreciate any opinio=
n
> > > > you might have on the matter.
> > >=20
> > > a) is a distraction, c) is a backwards step, so maybe b) wins.
> >=20
> > So I looked at GNU getopt and its at least smaller than Apache
> > Commons,
>=20
> Probably the state-of-the-arg is args4j:
>=20
>   https://args4j.dev.java.net/
>=20
> It uses Java 5 annotations to setup the argument parsing:

But it doesn't use GNU getOpt's long/short style parsing which is a BIG=
 loss. Maybe
we could contribute it? Or at least not design options incompatible wit=
h such an option
parser.

-- robin