Turning on javac lint warnings when building Java sources in jdk 8 repo

[Joe Darcy]

Hello,

A follow-up, some lint warnings are now enabled:

     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/262a625809fd

At least a few more should be turned out before JDK 8 GA!

Thanks,

-Joe

On 09/03/2013 06:40 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Over the last few months, over on core-libs-dev there have been 
> various clean up efforts concerning the Java code in the JDK 8 "jdk" 
> repo, resolving both javac lint and doclint warnings.
>
> With these clean ups in place, I think it is time for selected 
> categories of javac lint warnings to be enabled during the build under 
> -Werror. That is, for lint categories that have been scrubbed, the 
> build should be reconfigured so that reintroducing such a warning is a 
> build error. (Under the old build, different packages could use 
> different javac command line options. With the new build, all the Java 
> code is compiled under the same options so the full build was reduced 
> to the least restrictive javac lint setting.)
>
> As additional warning categories are resolved, the set of enabled lint 
> categories could be expanded, potentially including doclint categories 
> too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Joe
>
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