hunterpayne commented on PR #160: URL: https://github.com/apache/maven-compiler-plugin/pull/160#issuecomment-2070683052
Incremental building is an important feature. If you need it, you need it. Most projects don't but some very important projects do and they need something like this the most. I think the right solution is a compromise where we scale back how this works. The problem is that computing the right set of code to recompile is hard. So let's just make that part easy. Perhaps make the incremental based upon something higher level that where we are now. If that's not possible, then the solution is to actually maintain a map of files to classes to dependent classes/files from the last build and to use that to compute what is built. I think that is the buggy part as that that map is hard to maintain. Perhaps make that map manually editable by devs. We only need this feature in dev environments anyway. TLDR This is an important feature so let's find a way to reduce the complexity to make it work and be maintainable. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
