Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 04/06/2013 15:45, Phil Steitz a écrit : > >> Such a tool would be useful if it could automatically generate >> taggable sources. This is what the comment markers and ant filter >> tasks in the current setup do. > > I don't think a tool based on bytecode manipulation could produce the > corresponding sources. The idea is to build the main jar with the latest > JDK, and then strip or rewrite the methods from the .class files and > generate new jars for the previous JDKs. Having the exact -sources or > -javadoc artifacts that match the downgraded variants is not that > important, they could be copied as is from the main artifact. It doesn't > matter if they contain more methods than what is actually in the jar.
IMHO it is. If you do not have a matching -sources.jar, it will be cumbersome to debug a problem for any client. Note, that the -sources.jar would contain the filtered stuff, while the source distribution (-src.zip) would contain the originals. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
