On Wed, 07 Feb 2007, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been thinking about how we could improve our diagnostics, by > moving more of the diags into tasks themselves. Every task could > have a diagnostics(PrintStream) method that would be called to do > the diags.
I think it should get a Project instance instead of a PrinStream so that output goes to the logger attached, whatever that may be. Of course the PrinStream could be wrapping a LogOutputStream, but that would be taking away the opportunity to log at different levels. > 1. we could introspect for a public static void > diagnostics(PrintStream) throws BuildException method. This would > let us diagnose even if you cannot instantiate the task enough for > new() to work. Makes sense. > 2. or we'd use an interface Diagnostics that things could implement In many cases where required libraries are not there, we will fail to create a task instance. In some cases we may even be unable to create the class, but the "can't create an instance" cases are probably more common. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
