Coin Considerations

[Dalibor Topic]

Neal Gafter wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Dalibor Topic <Dalibor.Topic at sun.com> wrote:
>> Dumping the entire source code
>> for a file rather then subsets has the advantage that correct licensing,
>> javadoc and attribution information could trivially travel along with
>> the generated binary class file.
> 
> Dalibor-
> 
> There is currently no way to place an annotation on a "source file".
> You could only annotate the individual classes found within it.  In
> that case, I would think it surprising to find that the annotation
> contains source for all the classes, imports, and comments in the same
> source file.

Thanks, Neal - that's a very good point. Would Package be a more useful
target for it?

cheers,
dalibor topic

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