Re: JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8066617: Suppress deprecation warnings in java.base module

2014-12-04 Thread Lance Andersen
Hi Joe, The changes look fine. Best, Lance On Dec 4, 2014, at 2:18 AM, joe darcy wrote: > Hello, > > First some background, one of the JEPs targeted to JDK 9 is > >JEP 212: Resolve Lint and Doclint Warnings >http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/212 > > In the jdk repository, only the depreca

Re: JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8066617: Suppress deprecation warnings in java.base module

2014-12-04 Thread joe darcy
Greetings, I was tempted to address this point my initial message, but since it has been raised I will do so now. Many of the warnings in the JDK have been there for years or even more than a decade in some cases. Therefore, historically those of us who have worked on the JDK apparently have

Re: JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8066617: Suppress deprecation warnings in java.base module

2014-12-04 Thread Bernd
Hello, I am not sure this is a good idea, while I can understand a policy of "no (new) lint warnings" and also activities to remove them (based on the asumption that every warning is a potential bug or code smell) I absolutely think supressing all remaining warnings without working to resolve them

JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8066617: Suppress deprecation warnings in java.base module

2014-12-03 Thread joe darcy
Hello, First some background, one of the JEPs targeted to JDK 9 is JEP 212: Resolve Lint and Doclint Warnings http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/212 In the jdk repository, only the deprecation category of lint warnings remain. While resolving the other categories of warnings mostly involved