On 10/31/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mikhail Fursov wrote: > What are the reasons to exclude the most standard solution here: branching. > Do you think we need a lot of them? I don't think we are excluding any option for maintaining similar code streams (5.0 & 6.0, SE & ME, etc.) it's just a discussion at the moment. Similarly, I'm not advocating the use of aspects for maintaining different code streams; but rather I was saying that IDE support is likely going to be a requirement for any technology (apt, preprocessor, post-processing, aspects, ...) that we choose to solve the problem. I'm sure we wouldn't even want simple branching without a decent merge tool to keep things in sync.
Yes, the main reason I love Java is a power of tools! If you force me to work in notepad instead of IDEA with the only reason that we need a preprocessor I will have a doubt if the solution is reasonable. BTW I see from the discussion that AspectJ is considered as possible solution. I'm not a guru in this extension of Java and AFAIK it allows only to add method-entry/exits code. You can't add logging into the middle of the method. You can't change the method behaviour with it. So the question is: what an improvement we will have with AspectJ? -- Mikhail Fursov
