Anomalous package-info.java

[Morten Sabroe Mortensen <mo...@gmail.com>]

I am very sorry to see all my "package-info.java" files being stamped with
the "anomalous package-info.java" statement from Ant and have javac
generate a lot of "Creating empty .../package-info.class".

While not being in a OSGi environment and not having annotations on
packages, I do not at all find it "anomalous" to have my JavaDoc
documentation written carefully in package-info.java files.

I have read the Ant manual under javac, last section. What is the rationale
behind forcing the generation of "empty" package-info.class files?

When my javac task generates pages of output about
package-info.class-creation and for no apparent reason, I get really
scared. Contrary to most programmers, I actually care to write JavaDoc and
at the vary least state the intended purpose and responsibility of packages.

To me, the current state of package-info.java-handling does not appear to
be sound at all. Is it sound?

Someone care to comment upon the subject?

Re: Anomalous package-info.java

[Antoine Levy Lambert <an...@gmx.de>]

Hello Morten,

I am not aware of this problem.

How do you think that the behavior of  ant's javac task should be changed ?

Should it have an option to exclude the package-info.java files ? or exclude them by default ?

Regards,

Antoine

On Apr 22, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Morten Sabroe Mortensen wrote:

> I am very sorry to see all my "package-info.java" files being stamped with
> the "anomalous package-info.java" statement from Ant and have javac
> generate a lot of "Creating empty .../package-info.class".
> 
> While not being in a OSGi environment and not having annotations on
> packages, I do not at all find it "anomalous" to have my JavaDoc
> documentation written carefully in package-info.java files.
> 
> I have read the Ant manual under javac, last section. What is the rationale
> behind forcing the generation of "empty" package-info.class files?
> 
> When my javac task generates pages of output about
> package-info.class-creation and for no apparent reason, I get really
> scared. Contrary to most programmers, I actually care to write JavaDoc and
> at the vary least state the intended purpose and responsibility of packages.
> 
> To me, the current state of package-info.java-handling does not appear to
> be sound at all. Is it sound?
> 
> Someone care to comment upon the subject?


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