Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Keiser wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > > Brian Jones
> > >
> > >
> > > I think I've fixed the majority of problems in the script at this
> > > point. I've run it using a 1.2 classes.zip now and those results are
> > > available at http://www.classpath.org/~brian/compat/results-1.2.txt.
> > > I'm redoing the 1.1 check and that should be done in an half hour or
> > > so and available at that point on the web as well.
> > >
> > > I think there is definitely some good information there, so I hope it
> > > helps!
> >
> > Only remaining problem I can see: "Missing classes" and
> > "extra classes"
> > need to ignore package-private and private clsases, and, I suppose,
> > protected ones, even though I don't like that rule.
>
> FWIW, I strongly agree with John about protected classes. Protected
> members of a class *ARE* part of the public API in Java.
ClassLoader from 1.2 has a number of protected member functions which
are documented via javadoc. I don't think we can create a compatible
implementation without these functions. Paul, do you agree?
Brian
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