Unused imports

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Davide,

The imports are largely historical dating from before we had IDEs to  
help fix these issues, and it's not been a high priority for us to fix  
them.  Currently, the policy is to fix them when a source file is  
being edited anyway.

If you wish to contribute a suitable patch, that would be great, but  
please note that anyone contributing to OpenJDK must first sign the  
Sun Contributor Agreement form.  You can find details at http://sca.dev.java.net 
.

If you made the contribution, it would help to know how you determined  
which imports to remove. This will help review the patch -- meaning  
that it is simpler to review a patch knowing that the changes were  
determined by a tool, than determined manually.

-- Jon


On Aug 5, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Davide Angelocola wrote:

> Hi all,
>   I'm wondering why there are so many unused imports in the javac  
> code (from this repository: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/langtools) 
> .
>
> Can I send you some patches in order to fix these?
>
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> Davide Angelocola

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