Re: [dacapobench-researchers] Class-loading again

[Andreas S. <se...@st...>]

Hi,

>> - What was the intention behind the "attached" subdirectories some (but
>> not all) benchmarks have? As far as I can see, they only contain the
>> benchmark harness's sources. If that is the case, I propose that *every*
>> benchmark should produce its own
>> dacapo-${benchmark}-benchmark-sources.jar along with its primary
>> dacapo-${benchmark}-benchmark.jar. (This is exactly what happens with my
>> Scala benchmarks:
>> <http://repo.scalabench.org/snapshots/org/scalabench/benchmarks/scalac-dacapo-benchmark/0.1.0-SNAPSHOT/>)
> 
> I think you're right.   I'm not sure how that arose.    We simply want separate sources jars.

OK, I'll try to cook something up in the next few days. (Fortunately --
and unlike JavaDoc JARs -- sources JARs are easily mergable)

>> - What was the intention of putting JavaDoc documentation into the main
>> dacapo.jar itself? Why not use a separate artifact? (FWIW, the DaCapo
>> 9.12 JAR didn't include a "doc" directory; this is a later addition).
> 
> I'm not sure how this came to be either.   I'd suggest it was a mistake or something that was not entirely thought through.

I think John Zigman implemented this, at least he committed
"tools/transformer" to merge the menus generated by several independent
runs of javadoc.

This approach may be needlessly complex, though, given the availability
of a sources JAR, which provides an IDE with all source-code comments it
wants. Thoughts?

Best wishes,

Andreas