Re: Eclipse 3.0

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 12:20, Michael Koch wrote:
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> Am Freitag, 2. Juli 2004 13:00 schrieb Roman Kennke:
> > for the 0.10 release we could and should throw out any such methods
> > if it ain't break anything, and those, which would break
> > compilation should either be implemented (best solution) or should
> > throw a
> > NotImplementedException, which tells exactly, WHAT and WHERE
> > something is not implemented (and maybe WHY ;).
> >
> > Do you think, that makes sense? Or is this too much effort? Could
> > finding such methods be automated?
> 
> I think this is a very bad idea. First its too late for such a big 
> change and second this would irritate users why their apps dont even 
> compile against GNU classpath anymore. Better add FIXMEs over all and 
> track them with tools like grep or Eclipse and implement them as time 
> and interest comes.
> 
> 
> Michael
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Throwing an Error or similar in all cases would solve this problem in a
proactive way and still allow compilation.  I think people would be more
annoyed to find that an error they thought they had is due to nulls from
Classpath.
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