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Re: Attention GCJ devel team
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- To: James Williams <james_williams at optusnet dot com dot au>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:53:10 +1200
- Subject: Re: Attention GCJ devel team
- References: <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.