Re: Incremental Java Compile
Joshua Maurice wrote:
On May 7, 9:08 pm, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Joshua Maurice wrote:
If anyone else cares, I managed to inadvertently stumble across a
solution. On impulse, I asked a co-worker at lunch. It seems that
class files do not contain sufficient information with default javac
options. However, when compiled with -g, it contains a listing of
all types used in the compile. When combined with Ghost
Dependencies, I think this can result in a correct incremental
build at the file level which will not cascade endlessly
downstream. I'm working on the finishing touches to my prototype
now.
You realize that you're now going to recompile a class when it
refers to another class to which a comment was added.
Yes. I'm pretty sure that it would be better than doing a full clean
build or a cascading jar-dir-unit incremental build.
No doubt, but the result isn't the minimal amount of recompilation we were
discussing earlier.
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