[Soot-list] Soot release

[Marc-Andre Laverdiere-Papineau]

I am trying to think of what that means concretely for the project.

Obviously, there is a command-line switch. But we can map it to use the 
Java 5 front-end. That amounts to an invisible change.

Then, there is the source compatibility - maybe some projects would like 
to have warning/errors for code that is not Java 4 and lower. I am 
stretching my imagination here... I can't think of any project being 
really *against* better Java support.

So one possibility is that some projects would depend on the Polyglot 
AST - maybe some rewriting of some kind?

If that is the case, then we have to keep this component working 
forever. But I would like to have their maintainers confirming that need.

If there is nothing like that, we can mark Polyglot support as 
deprecated, issue a warning, and hopefully get everyone to transition by 
the next release.

How does that sound?


Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
Doctorant - PhD Candidate

On 13-01-14 05:59 PM, Laurie Hendren wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I think there are very likely projects still around that use the
> polyglot front-end.   I don't think it is a good idea to remove it.
>
> Laurie
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> On 14/01/2013 2:32 AM, Eric Bodden wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>>> I hit a bug with the entry point detector and I want to re-run tests for
>>> sanity checking.
>> Ok. Please let me know when this is finished.
>>
>>> I would suggest to trash the Polyglot component - I don't see any reason
>>> we should preserve that in the code base, as it amounts to functionality
>>> duplication.
>> I generally agree but I know that there's at least one tool that build
>> on this approach:
>> http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/ppa/
>>
>> Having said that, I am not sure if it would still work with the
>> current version of Soot anyway.
>> What do the others think about removing polyglot?
>>
>> Eric
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