Sorry for spam, >I >bet if you could convince some investor that it was a web2.0 thing, you >could get it funded....
I believe I know one investor - just convince G**gle to distribute AJAX modules for his code search engine which would automatically insert comments with code sensitive advertisement. With best regards, Alexei Fedotov, Intel Java & XML Engineering >-----Original Message----- >From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 4:39 AM >To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: [classlib] Preprocessor - CHECKPOINT > > > >Etienne Gagnon wrote: >> Tim Ellison wrote: >>> IMO it's not ideal that the preprocessed source still contains all the >>> streams, albeit in comments. It wouldn't make the source very >>> 'consumable' to the Mrs. SE or ME developer. >> >> Hmmm... It's always possible to have a special output mode that puts >> empty (or advertizing, hehe) comments, instead of other stream code >> (thus, preserving line numbers). >> >> To continue on my earlier example: >> >> Java source => "j2se end-developer" >> ----------------------------------- >> >> >> ... >> >> // Download Harmony[tm] from >> // >> // http://the.nice.harmony.url/download >> // >> // :-) >> >> @Processor(Not in j2me!) >> int some_field = >> some + >> initializing() >> code; >> >> ... >> >> >> Or, more likely: >> >> Java source => "j2se end-developer" >> ----------------------------------- >> >> >> ... >> >> // Please ignore this comment. It has been >> // intentionally left here to preserve line numbers >> // for bug reporting purpose. >> // >> // Please report bugs to http://bugs.of.harmony.url/... >> >> @Processor(Not in j2me!) >> int some_field = >> some + >> initializing() >> code; >> >> ... >> >> >> So, J2ME & J2SE end-developers are kept happy. > >I'm still not quite getting the importance of preserving the line >numbers like that if we have some minimal tooling to let us work with it >in eclipse or IDEA invisibly.... users would report bug at line X, and >we'd either look at the transformed code that they are actually using, >and translate backwards, or have a plugin that lets us "A/B" between >transformed and original. > >The key is to play with some examples, I guess. > >> >> As a bonu$, you can al$o $tart a nice busine$$ $elling advertizing $pace >> in $ource code. ;-P > >It's our idea - you run with it. let us know how that works out. (I >bet if you could convince some investor that it was a web2.0 thing, you >could get it funded....) > > >> >> Etienne >>
