I can neither confirm nor deny that dx is going to die, but it sure looks like "Google" is replacing it with "D8". https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/08/next-generation-dex-compiler-now-in.html
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:03 PM, <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> wrote: > > > ------------------------------ > > *De: *"Martin Buchholz" <marti...@google.com> > *À: *"Remi Forax" <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> > *Cc: *"Ralph Goers" <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>, "core-libs-dev" < > core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net> > *Envoyé: *Mercredi 6 Décembre 2017 22:35:42 > *Objet: *Re: Android and Log4j > > Very latest Android Studio comes with two compilers, dx and d8. > https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features/index.html > I hear that both compilers know to skip module-info files. > > > I hope dx will die soon, i had to patch it once and i was messy, a > register allocator is usually not a fun code but in case of dx, it is > hidden by several layers of abstraction which made me cringe. > > Rémi > > > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Martin Buchholz <marti...@google.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Remi Forax <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> wrote: >> >>> Ask Google to fix dx, >>> dx should ignore the module-info.class and everything inside >>> META-INF/versions (at least it's a first simple patch). >>> >> >> Hi, I'm "Google", sort of. Friends tell me that dx is getting fixed. >> >> >
