Peter Donald wrote: >
> no it is bugs in the compiler. The compiler already does dependancy > checking ... except the only one that does it properly is jikes. It still > misses some dependancies (specifically clients of a client to changed > interface and clients to static final primitive types) but it is much much > better than the sun compilers. Ah, but the java compiler writers chose to do what most other hadn't - deal with dependency. Sadly, they didn't get it right, which is as bad as not having it at all.. > >For now, we do what everyone else does... clean, compile... > > try full dependancy stuff with jikes - I rarely have to recompile with that > :P. (Except as mentioned above). > Except when you have a standard, and the standard says use the sun compiler or the vendor's compiler on other platforms, then you can't do jikes, even if you want to...
