Does anyone (esp. anyone working at Javasoft) know anything about the likely fate of JDC RFE 4164450 "Standard interface for Java compilers". It seems like it would be a pretty easy API to cook up and probably easy for compiler writers to support. (Much easier, say, than the JPDA). It's not like the world's going to end without it but it would put things like Ant's use of javac on a slightly firmer footing. (And would make the Javac task much easier to write, as soon as someone wrapped Jikes in a thin layer of Java to support the API.)
-Peter -----Original Message----- From: James Duncan Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 9:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Javac, Jikes and java 1.1-1.3 On 11/14/00 5:13 PM, "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why assume anything ? Javac is a horribly broken non-compliant compiler - > you don't assume - you hope that it does what is supposed to do ;) Ah -- but which Javac? :) -- the "modern" one in JDK 1.3 is *much* improved in almost all areas. -- James Duncan Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] !try; do()
