Re: RFA: merge new tools.jar classes from GNU Classpath

[Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat dot com>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "Tom" == Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Tom> This patch merges the new tools.jar classes from GNU Classpath
> Tom> into the GCC tree.
>
> Tom> OK to commit?
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> Do we need this immediately?  If not it may be better to wait for the
> next Classpath release and bring it in that way.
>
> But if you want it on the branch for F7, I suppose we ought to go
> ahead and do it now.

Ideally I'd like this patch in Fedora 7, yes.  Is your concern that adding it 
now will complicate the next Classpath merge?

> Also, it seems a little weird to be importing gjdoc when we know that
> it needs major work, and while we are actively looking at an
> alternative.  What's up with that?

I'm not proposing merging gjdoc itself.  The source files in this patch define 
interfaces and one abstract class that Doclets may implement or extend.  These 
files were being maintained in the gjdoc repository but for compatibility, they 
belong in tools.jar and so should be maintained in the GNU Classpath tree.

Tom