RE: Spice Dependency (was: RE: Spice License)

Stephen,

> I have reviwed all occurances of the usage of the excalibur CLI package
> that I was able to identity across the CVS repositories

> In each case the CLI usage patterns were consitent with the
> functioanlity provided by the Jakarta Commons CLI package.

So you are representing that there are no functional issues in terms of the
code?  Am I to understand that the ONLY issue is that Jakarta Commons CLI
has some additional external dependencies that would require more jar files?
If that is the only issue, how hard would it be to reduce or eliminate those
are requirements, and leave them as optional?  And if that were done, does
it eliminate the reasons not to migrate?

Note: there would still need to be Excalibur CLI in AV4, if only to bridge
to Commons, to preserve binary compatibility.

	--- Noel