Re: Commons Collections & Java 5

Hi Rijk, There is a generics branch in Apache, but it's only had a trickle of development activity. You can read most of the debate about collections here: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-110 There is currently not a nightly build running off this branch. You can find two fo

[COLLECTIONS] status of 1.5 branch

Hi, What's the status of the JDK 1.5 branch? It seems the developers are split as to if it's a good thing, and if so, if the API should be different or the same. Most advice I see says to use the collections15 project on SourceForge. What I would like, is a drop in replacement, with binary

Re: [cli] What are the current status for CLI 2.0?

Hi Nicholas, I helped out getting a CLI 1.1 bug fix release out a few months ago. I've turned my attention to CLI 2.0, but I haven't given it the attention it needs. What I would like to see is a stable 2.0 release, and then possibly a 2.1 release with additional features. Wolfgang Roessler,

Re: [CLI] CLI Validation - Was: WELCOME to dev@commons.apache.org

Hi Wolfgang, I agree that the framework should have better support for groups and mutually exclusive options. This is a feature I've often had to do in a pre or post processing step. I've thought about writing a CLI library which would accept a EBNF option grammar, much like JavaCC or ANTLR

Re: [CLI2] Writing source code unit tests (CvsTest)

Hi Karl, I think you need to add the update options to the update command as children. I.e., optionBuildDirectories = obuilder.withShortName("d") .withDescription("Build directories, like checkout does.") .withId(BUILD_DIRECTORIES_ID) .create();