Tom Tromey writes: > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Tom> We need to declare war on stubs. They improperly inflate our japi > Tom> scores and blind us to the real state of Classpath. Also I seem to > Tom> keep running into them as I dig around :-( > > Andrew> My gut instinct would be to remove them all, and really show > Andrew> up where we at, in order to motivate people to work on these > Andrew> things that appear implemented. > > While tempting, I think this is too big a hammer for this problem. > I'd rather we not break anything that currently works -- whether it is > programs that run poorly, or even programs that currently compile (eg > where we may rely on a program not using some of the stubs). > > Having a list of stubs would be a good start. The ones I fixed this > weekend I ran across by chance; I had no idea we had stubs in AWT at > all. > > I like David's idea of a STUB comment. Yes. I would love to see the stubs gone, but I love evolutionary development more. Andrew.
