Re: RFC: remove print statements from Security

[Michael Koch]

On Thursday 14 October 2004 06:22, Casey Marshall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose that we remove the print statements from the
> provider loading code in java.security.Security, as with the
> attached patch. It wasn't recieved well when proposed [1] and now
> actually makes tests fail on libgcj [2].
>
> I personally find it rather amateurish -- they look like debug
> statements and they can't be turned off.
>
> Alternatively, how about printing them only if a DEBUG constant is
> set to 'true'?

It's your code. You may decide. I would vote for removing it if its 
not needed in the future. If it can be used to debug new code (e.g. 
Providers) you can use the DEBUG solution.


Michael