Jeremy Huiskamp wrote:
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What I could do is take the eclipse compiler and see what parts of it
can be reused. I don't know anything about it so I won't offer any
speculation now. Also, obviously eclipse has it's own javadoc
functionality. Is that something that can be borrowed?
That's what I was about to suggest. Eclipse clearly groks javadoc. Why
not see how that does it?
Assuming the easy case, that the tools are all there for poaching with
minimal work, what would the proper action be? It could be stated that
harmony will use the eclipse tools and you should go get them from
eclipse if you want them (at least for the time being, until harmony
gets to the point of being packaged up as a useable jdk). I gather
that's the current status of the compiler. Or harmony could host the
currently accepted binaries. Or the source code could be taken into
svn, in which case there's the question of keeping in sync with the
original tool. In all likelihood, it won't be that simple and harmony
will have some of it's own modifications...
Having asked so many questions, I'm now expecting to be told that
whatever I feel like doing will be better than nothing :-p I'm off to
see what I can find out about the eclipse toolset.
Whatever you feel like doing is better than nothing. Thanks for
volunteering :)
geir
