Adam Murdoch wrote > Anyone know of a reason why we should not make the zinc compiler the > default for scala compilation, and deprecate the ant task backed compiler?
Two potential reasons: 1. The Zinc compiler is considerably slower than the Ant compiler for a clean compile. Therefore, it may not be a good fit for, say, a CI job that always does a clean compile. 2. Last time I spoke with the Zinc folks, they said that it's not yet as robust as they would like it to be. Zinc also needs to be evolved together with the Scala language, probably more so than the Ant task (which ships with `scala-compiler`). Therefore, I may be worthwhile to have a non-deprecated fallback. I don't have a strong opinion on which compiler should be the default (perhaps Zinc is the better choice by now), but I wouldn't deprecate the Ant compiler just yet. I've proposed to the Zinc folks that Zinc should also offer a non-incremental compile mode, via the same compiler API. I don't know if this will be implemented, but if so, this would be a good time to deprecate the Ant compiler. Cheers, Peter -- View this message in context: http://gradle.1045684.n5.nabble.com/use-the-zinc-compiler-as-default-for-scala-compilation-tp5711818p5711856.html Sent from the gradle-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
