langtools and NetBeans

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Funny you should mention this;  I'm just waiting for a review and will  
put
the change back soon.  Thanks for the feedback.

-- Jon

On Jan 20, 2009, at 11:20 PM, John Rose wrote:

> On Dec 12, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>
>> The patch is a preview, to give folk who use NetBeans for langtools  
>> a chance
>> to give feedback, before we push this to the main repository,  
>> perhaps sometime
>> early in January.  Comment and feedback welcome.
>
> I like this patch, since I use NetBeans with increasing frequency  
> and enthusiasm.  But I use 6.5, so the old langtools sub-projects do  
> not work for me.  With your patch, I can get work done now.
>
> I like it so well I have put it into the mlvm/langtools patch  
> repository, with instructions on how to work with javac in NetBeans:
>  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/langtools/rev/6de49f01c9f0
>
> I hope something like this gets into the real langtools repo., so I  
> can remove the patch from mlvm.
>
> Configuring my environment to use it was non-trivial: lots of moving  
> parts.  I recorded my experiences starting at about line 70 of this  
> file:
>  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/langtools/file/tip/meth.txt
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- John