Re: [cp-patches] Re: FYI: Added missing methods in org.ietf interface declarations.

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Stuart" == Stuart Ballard <address@hidden> writes:

Stuart> CVS japi
Stuart> (http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/cvs/h-jdk14-classpath.html)
Stuart> already excludes this error

Excellent.

Stuart> I'm beginning to think I ought to drop the "regular" japi runs
Stuart> and just use the CVS ones for everything. Only problem with
Stuart> that is that if some checkin causes regressions in CVS japi we
Stuart> won't have good results for however long it takes to spot and
Stuart> fix.

Let's give it a try.  There's always the option of reverting patches
or using a sticky tag for a little while if need be.

For regressions, it would be nice to have a script to compare japi
output and notice new problems.  These could go to the new testing
mailing list... that would be helpful since it would be notification
of another kind of bug.

Stuart> But having these in place does serve a documentation purpose,
Stuart> as it reminds implementors that they have to override the
Stuart> hashCode. It also provides a place to hang javadocs describing
Stuart> what the algorithm should actually be (I don't know whether
Stuart> that applies in this case, though).

Both good points, I agree.

Tom