2012-03-26 13:34, Jonathan Gibbons skrev:
Right now, in the current build, we use a "hybrid" javadoc to build
the API documentation, where "hybrid" means: latest sources, running
on bootstrap JDK.
Looking to the future, at least for Jigsaw, and now maybe for JSR 308,
we may need to run javadoc on the newly built JDK. Does anyone see
any problems with doing that?
-- Jon
It seems counter intuitive that, something as trivial, as extracting
documentation
from source files, should require the entire new jdk.... You need to
give us more
information Jon. Why can't we build a bootstrap javadoc that knows how
to deal
with the new jdk sources (modules, type annotations et al)
in the same way that we can build a bootstrap javac?
//Fredrik
