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Re: OPP Behaviour
On Thu, 03 May 2001, Eric Richardson wrote:
> Hi,
> I am working with OPP and found the behaviour a bit strange. If I keep
> the source -ks option I need to generate into my classpath where javac
> is putting my other class files but then the source file is left in the
> classes area.
>
> The generated file is in the correct package but the javac doesn't honor
> the package and the classes dir from a compiling perspective.
>
> Do you think this is wrong? The java compiler is pretty smart and looks
> at the class file and the src file to see if it is out of date as well
> as the way ant works.
>
> Should the OPP take a classes directory and source path so it compiles
> the file in the directory based on the package using the following
> options?
>
> -sourcepath <path> Specify where to find input source files
> -d <directory> Specify where to place generated class files
>
> If the following two args were passed in ProxyGenerator.java
> compileSource() method to javac then I think that javac would avoid
> compiling up to date proxies and perhaps OPP could look at timestamps as
> well so it won't generate if the class file hasn't been changed.
>
> What do you think? This could also potentially speed up builds.
This is true. David brought this problem up to the table sometime ago. AFAIK he
is working on a solution. But, as he pointed out, checking all dependincies of
proxies is tricky.
Any news here David? ;)
Falko
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