Re: @deprecated

[David Gilbert]

Stuart Ballard wrote:

> (David, hope you don't mind me replying to the list on this)
>  
Not at all.  It's my fault, I intended my reply to go to the list but 
hit the wrong button.

Regards,

Dave

> On 9/2/05, David Gilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>
> > I think japi may be getting some of these wrong.  For instance, in the
> > latest japi report it says:
> >
> >    * field javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTabbedPaneUI.downKey: deprecated
> >      in jdk14, but not deprecated in classpath
> >    
>
> ...
>  
>
> > ...but in the GNU Classpath source code:
> >
> >  /**
> >   * This is the keystroke for moving down.
> >   *
> >   * @deprecated 1.3
> >   */
> >  protected KeyStroke downKey;
> >    
>
> Interesting. There are two possible culprits here - either the
> japitools code for reading Deprecated attributes out of class files,
> or the compiler being used to compile Classpath for the japi runs.
>
> Andrew, could you let me know which compiler you're using to build the
> japi files hosted on fuseyism.org? Are the jar files themselves
> available somewhere for diagnostics?
>
> Jeroen, can you think of any immediately obvious reason why
> ClassFile.java might be missing the fact that these things are
> deprecated, other than a compiler bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Stuart.
>
>