[Soot-list] Soot Wishlist

[Patrick Lam]

On 01/06/2012 09:22 AM, Eric Bodden wrote:
>> 3. If this wish is granted, than the previous two don't have to be. Ability
>> to add our own packs, and insert them before/after other packs. I noticed we
>> couldn't add to the jimple body pack, which was kind of disappointing.
>
> That would be a rather large change to do now. At the moment, Soot
> calls each pack individually "by name". I am not sure why Soot was
> designed that way, but that's the way it is now. I am also not sure
> that that much flexibility is needed. Most packs (except jj and jb)
> can be modified.

It's not clear to me that it's generally useful to add new packs.

Note that the jb pack is special in that you can't add to it; other 
packs do accept new transformers.

pat