Re: [abc] soot doesn't build against recent polyglot

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Ondrej Lhotak wrote:

> > Anyway, is this something that can reasonably be fixed in Soot? I don't
> > know if you try to track latest polyglot CVS or the latest release,
> > although I think in this case it can be fixed in a way that would be
> > compatible with either.
>
> You suggest that for the short term, it may be possible to devise a Soot
> that would work with both the released and the CVS Polyglot. That would
> postpone the problem for the moment, and I would have no problem with
> such a change. But it's only a stop-gap measure until Polyglot comes up
> with a change that does not make such a thing possible.

I think the best answer is that we make the change to Soot to fix the
current problem, assuming that I am right about it being possible, and
then stop being so aggressive about tracking Polyglot CVS with abc.
Historically the Polyglot people were producing bug fixes we needed a lot,
which is why we got into that mindset, but I don't think it's necessary
any more.

If that fails, then your other suggestion is probably best:

> Yet another alternative, if abc really needs a bleeding-edge Polyglot,
> would be to maintain an abc-specific branch of Soot. Subversion makes
> maintaining such branches quite feasible. Is this additional maintenance
> work a worthwhile price to pay for insisting on bleeding-edge software?

> Since all of this is closely related to the frequency of Polyglot
> releases, it may make sense to ask the Polyglot gang about their
> expected release frequency.

It might be worth asking them, but since they are an academic project with
limited resources like both abc and soot, I think relying on them would be
dangerous. For abc, I think the policy of producing abc-specific soot and
polyglot source snapshots is a good solution which means we can release
when we want to. I had hoped to make version 1.0.1 of abc depend on the
actual 2.2.0 release of soot for once, but that obviously won't be
possible now.

I'll make the change to Soot and test it against both Polyglot 1.3 and the
abc version before checking in, unless you'd rather do it.

Cheers,

Ganesh
Received on Wed Dec 22 21:25:57 2004