Commandline Interface programming

[mgmechanics]

(This affects only the programming side, not the user experience.)

The current programming interface does what it should do. But there are easier and more obvious alternatives. When adding more command line options one might consider to switch to Apache Commons CLI (https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-cli/). In my experience, programming a CLI is easier do to with it.

But using Apache Commons CLI would break the user interface because it allows only short options to start with one hyphen ("-a") but loner options have to use two hyphen ("--timeout"). But this style is adopted widely in the Linux world.