On 2016-08-01, dalibor topic wrote: > I'd also suggest a sideways glance at > https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42838 again, in light > of the current minimal platform requirements for Ant.
Sure, unfortunately the ticket only has people with strong opinions but no code attached to it :-) Seriously, Ant's javac facade would have been sufficient even back in 1.7.0 to provide an implementation based on JSR 199. It just never looked worth the effort if we needed to support the com.sun.tools.javac.Main based entry point for older JDKs anyway. For Ant 1.9.x this still is true as Java5 is the target. We wouldn't drop the code that has worked well for years in 1.10.x either. One question to ask is what would improve for Ant if we used javax.tools rather than keep the existing code. We wouldn't easily be able to take advantage of anything the new API offers that went beyond our own compiler abstraction without breaking those who implement the current abstraction (this includes code outside of Ant like the adapter for Eclipse's ejc). Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
