I posted before about how I have a fairly large (about 150 KLOC)
codebase that now contains a mixture of interdependent Scala and Java,
and how I was building it with a complicated Ant setup that invoked
scalac and javac many times, in alternation.
Since the new Scala/Java mixing support was announced, I've been trying
to get it to work with my project. You pass all of your source (both
Java and Scala) to scalac, then you run javac with just your Java
sources. Or, if you're using Eclipse, you include both the Scala
builder and the Java builder in your project.
I encountered and reported a series of bugs along the way (both
compile-time problems and run-time problems), but the good news is,
nearly all of them were fixed promptly by EPFL (thank you all!), and the
remaining few are minor and easily worked around. So as of yesterday,
my app now works when compiled the new way -- all tests pass and the GUI
seems to work). Hooray!
What puzzles me is, even though I found quite a few bugs, I seem to be
almost the only one reporting such bugs. Is no one else even trying out
this new mixing support...? If you've thought about trying it, now
would be a good time, since
- it's in much better shape than it was a month ago, in fact, good
enough shape to work with a pretty large codebase with many
dependencies in both directions between the two languages
- 2.7.2 is coming soon and if there are any more bugs lurking it would
be great to have the bug reports come in before 2.7.2 ships
Check it out,
--
Seth Tisue /
http://tisue.netlead developer, NetLogo:
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
