> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 2:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Optional Tasks
>
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> Another candidate is the <javac> task itself. The current
> mess of supporting
> many compiler variations is not really nice. I would like to
> see a mechanism
> where different compilers could be plugged in. In fact such a
> system would
> allow the Jikes implementation to be moved out of the core
> and into the
> Jikes project.
Agreed. This is exactly the problem I ran into this week end. I was trying to plug the mjavac compiler from Metamata that add a couple of things to the bytecode for coverage or debug purposes, but the current implementation somewhat blocked me.
I faced two choices:
- copy/paste the vast majority of the code to my own implementation. :-(
- add another doMJavacCompile and doMJikesCompile to the Javac :-(
In any case not a good thing..so I did nothing yet, 'im still unsure about the best way to do it right now.
The only thing that change for mjavac and mjikes is the addition of another option "-cover", it was thus an ideal candidate for inheritance.
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St�phane Bailliez
Software Engineer, Paris - France
iMediation - http://www.imediation.com
Disclaimer: All the opinions expressed above are mine and not those from my company.
