Hello Steve, sounds good.
Are you going to implement the changes ? Regards, Antoine -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:17:39 +0100 Von: Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org> Betreff: Re: ant-1.7.0_beta2: ant.jar depends on ant-nodeps.jar due to WeakishReference > Steve Loughran wrote: > > Vlastimil Babka wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> It happens because WeakishReference.java imports > >> optional/WeakishReference12.java. Shouldn't be problem as long as you > >> use both jars together, but in Gentoo we are packaging them separately, > >> so it can be a problem (in case somebody still uses WeakishReference :) > > > > Maybe we can kill WeakishReference it was only there to let Java1.2 hang > > on to stuff weakly and yet still have code that worked on Java1.1. That > > is no longer a requirement... > > > > I am of course wrong > > 1. oata.util.WeakishReference is in Core, since Ant1.6. There's a > HardReference as a nested class. > > 2. oata.optional.WeakReference12 extends WeakishReference s the Ant1.2+ > implementation. > > In the past, the factory in WeakishReference would defer to > WeakReference12 in ant1.2+, using reflection. Right now, in SVN, its > hard coded in, leading to Vlastimil's problem. > > Here's what I propose. > > 1. Move all the functionality of WeakishReference12 into WeakishReference. > > 2. Leave WeakishReference12 in place as a (deprecated) facade. > > 3. Turn WeakishReference.HardReference into a (deprecated) Facade. > > this eliminatest the cross package functionality by moving what we need > into the core (and creating nothing new) there. All references become > weak, which was the original goal. > > The alternative would be to delete the lot of them. > > -Steve > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
