In 1.5, these constants are final, which means if you build against 1.5, the constants are inlined.
But in r3547, the way the constants were initialized changed, and the final qualifier was removed. So actually, 1.6 and up has a "fix" of sorts. I think the fix was inadvertent, however - it isn't documented why these variables aren't final, and you can re-write the static initalizer to make them final again. Still want me to go through with the change? For my linker problem, I am planning to try reflection to grab the version string (or call the updated getter().) On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:48 AM, John Tamplin <j...@google.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Eric Ayers <zun...@google.com> wrote: >> >> What I mean to do is create a getter, deprecate the constant and clean up >> all references we control. But like I said, last time there was debate over >> which class should 'own' the version number. > > About seems a fine place for it. Perhaps the getter should have more > sturctured access, like returning int[3] instead of (or in addition to via > another getter) a string. > > -- > John A. Tamplin > Software Engineer (GWT), Google > > > > -- Eric Z. Ayers - GWT Team - Atlanta, GA USA http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
