Re: mauve results posted nightly

[Stuart Ballard]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "Stuart" == Stuart Ballard <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Are you taking feature requests?  I'd like it if the package name for
> a given comparison linked to detailed information about the
> differences in the package.  I'm thinking that easy bugs (e.g.,
> missing "final", wrong protections, etc) can be fixed immediately if
> there is an easy way to see them.

The plaintext output already linked from www.classpath.org includes 
this. I certainly plan on adding it to the HTML output very soon.

Sure, I'm taking feature requests. I'm taking patches too ;)

> It's more work, but you could eliminate false problems by reading all
> the APIs at once and only mentioning something as an error if it
> disagrees with 1.4.

Well, there's two aspects to this. The first is that jode is currently 
unable to read classfiles created with javac 1.4, which means that it's 
currently impossible to create a jdk14.japi.gz using japize out of the 
box. It would certainly be great if we could address this issue by 
patching jode. This is a prerequisite for doing what you suggest, but it 
would also help by itself because at least you can look and see whether 
the purple bar is still there with 1.4.

As far as eliminating false problems caused by implementing 1.4 features 
is concerned, that's also on the list for japitools-1.0 but it certainly 
makes things a lot more complicated. On the front-end, I'm trying to 
think of good ways to present that information when you have lots of 
different JDK versions being compared, and lots of free versions to 
compare against, and seeing if I can present that usefully in a single 
HTML file. On the backend, there's some significant re-architecting that 
needs doing if I'm going to process more than two files simultaneously 
(for starters, if you have multiple "left-hand" files, you can't use the 
left-hand file to "drive" the loading process anymore).

> Stuart> Anyone with connections in the libgcj camp, you're welcome to
> Stuart> post a libgcj.japi.gz file somewhere nightly and I'll do the
> Stuart> same...
>
> It will take some time, probably a long time, but eventually I'll do
> this.

Let me know where to find the file when it happens, and I'll add it to 
my crontab :)

Stuart.


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