On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Sam Ruby wrote:
> Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > > > > An additional note of interest to Ant developers - there is evidence that > > running the compiler (either old or new) leaves a fair amount of cruft > > lying around in static variables, after the compile has completed. The > > recommended solution is to load the compiler itself in its own class > > loader, so that you can throw it all away afterwards. That's the > approach > > we'll take when modifying Jasper. > > Would there be a value in a commons-javac? Several Apache projects seem to > have need for this function... > That would be an interesting approach, but also a non-trivial amount of work. Any compiler hackers out there? > - Sam Ruby > > Craig
