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From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
To: James Williams <james_williams@optusnet.com.au>
Cc: java@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Attention GCJ devel team
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC38926.90804@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001e01c1e797$c91c2f30$c47831d2@computer>

James Williams wrote:

>I am currently working on a tool that will generate class stubs complete
>with javadoc from javadoc specifications.  In your FAQ a person
>mentioned that "Considering that new Java APIs come out every week, it's
>going to be impossible to track everything."  I believe the tool I am
>developing may reduce this development challenge for you substantially.
>
From my perspective the value of this would be that when a new specification 
>came out, the api converter could be run providing a clean framework 
>complete with all the new and deprecated api's and then the intergrator 
>could copy the existing code from the current libgcj implementation into 
>the new framework.
>

This sounds like an interesting and useful tool. However, I don't know 
whether or not we can, from a legal perspective, generate code 
directly/automatically from Javadocs. I suspect we'd have to ask the FSF 
legal people whether or not this is safe.

regards

Bryce.


       reply	other threads:[~2002-04-22  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <001e01c1e797$c91c2f30$c47831d2@computer>
2002-04-21 22:22 ` Bryce McKinlay [this message]
2002-04-22  0:22   ` Nic Ferrier
2002-04-22  1:27     ` James Williams
2002-04-22 11:03     ` Raif S. Naffah
2002-04-23  7:25   ` Oskar Liljeblad
2002-04-23 18:04     ` Bryce McKinlay
2002-04-23 22:29 James Williams
2002-04-23 22:42 ` Bryce McKinlay

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