Adding support for a generic Tool task would be a valuable addition. This could leverage existing machinery already developed as a part of the Ant codebase. The Javac tool is a good example of a specialized tool and should be considered as an core part of the Ant toolkit especially taking into consideration its support for pluggable annotation processors.
Cheers, Steve. -------------------------- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpml.net > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 9 July 2007 8:02 PM > To: dev@ant.apache.org > Subject: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 42838] - Support for JSR 199: Java > Compiler API > > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT PLEASE POST YOUR BUG. RELATED > COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AVAILABLE AT > <http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42838>. > ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL NOT BE COLLECTED AND. > INSERTED IN THE BUG DATABASE. > > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42838 > > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2007-07-09 03:32 ------- one question: why? Ant already has > lots of support for the existing javac apis, to the extent > that we're actually used behind the scenes in a lot of places. > What is so compelling about the new API that we need to add a > new implementation and the test cases to match? > > The only thing would make it compelling to me would be if > non-forking javac would stop leaking very large > (multi-megabyte) static data structures. Is there any > discussion in that in the API? Whenever we reported that > problem to sun in the past, it was always dismissed as a > WONTFIX "you shouldnt be running javac in-process". > > -- > Configure bugmail: > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are > the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
