Andrew John Hughes wrote:
Instrumentation is a 1.5 package feature. It's not part of the 1.4
specification. That's why
the files are only in the branch.
Nicolas
But the branch isn't for 1.5 features as such. It's for stuff that will
only compile when used with a compiler supporting the 1.5 features
(generics, enums, annotations and a few bits of syntactic sugar). So,
if you can actually compile and run all the instrumentation stuff with a
1.4 suite, it should be on HEAD, IMHO. At least, that was my
understanding of this and why it's called a generics branch and not a
1.5 branch -- someone correct me if I'm wrong. There are quite a few
1.5 package features on HEAD already.
OK, I thought the generics branch was the equivalent of the 1.5 branch
of sun. But if it's not the case, I have no problem commiting
instrumentation code to HEAD. I do have one question though : the (sun)
API of instrumentation has generics code (for example
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/instrument/ClassDefinition.html),
does it make sense (and I'm OK if you think it does) to modify the API
in order to fit for a non-generics code?
Nicolas
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