On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 13/02/2017 16:58, Guillaume Smet wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> > wrote: > >> I agree that @Generated is awkward but I haven't suggested removing it. > > > What do you suggest then? As far as I understood you, you were suggesting > removing the module in Java 10 so the @Generated annotation would also be > gone? Or did I misunderstand? > > That is the proposal. If it goes ahead then it means that tools that rely > on these annotations in the JDK would need to deploy the standalone version > on the class path or as a module on the module path. > Yeah, so basically, it would end up with http://hg.openjdk.java.net/code-tools/jmh/rev/d74b2861222c . I don't think it's the best possible outcome for this useful annotation. -- Guillaume