Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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1.0
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None
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None
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Operating System: other
Platform: Other
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31464
Description
In the main usage guide to the CLI tool, it goes through a long example of how
to create the rules to parse the option set of ANT. Unfortunately:
1. If you follow the instructions given, the resultant parser with not be able
to parse the option set example given in the docs. The docs are simply wrong
and could not have been validated.
2. No matter what you do, the CLI software is too inflexible to ever parse
the ANT option set (How dumb is that??), because it insists that all options
that have a "-" prefix are one character long.
3. The help formater doesnt work as documented on the usage page either - (due
to a bug it took just a minute to find) it only prints usage help for options
which have a single character descriptions, despite single char descriptions
not being mandatory.
In all, Ive been extremely dissappointed and surprised that marginally tested
software of such poor quality and design, whose own scant docs blatantly dont
work as described, can make it into such a position of influence.
I spent about an hour comparing the 3 OS Java command line parsing libs
yesterday, and (in part because of the (increasingly devalued) "Jakarta
Commons" brand) sadly it seems I put my money on the wrong horse.