Chris Hostetter wrote:
> : > i'm thinking we should change the nightly build to set 
> : > -Djavadoc.access=private so we at least expose more errors earlier. 
> : > (assuming we also setup the hudson to report stats on javadoc 
> : > warnings ... i've seen it in other instances but don't know if it 
> requires 
> : > a special plugin)
>
> : If it gives more errors, shouldnt it be set always and everywhere? Why
> : not ...
>
> it doesn't just change the level of error checking -- it changes which 
> methods get generated docs "access" refers to the java access level 
> (public, protected, package, private) that should be exposed ... for 
> releases we only want "protected" (the default in our build file) so we 
> only advertise classes/methods/fields we expect consummers to use/override 
> -- but as a side effect the javadoc tool never checks the docs on 
> package/private members for correctness.
>
>
> -Hoss
>
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I still have the same thought though - why not? Unless it takes a lot
longer to parse, why hide bad JavaDoc? We may maintain public JavaDoc
for users, but we maintain private JavaDoc for developers as well.

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- Mark

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