On Tue Jul 08 10:12, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi Florian, > > Florian Grandel said: > >> Can it be used to track changes in the method signatures or does it just > >> analyze inter-jar depenedencies? > > > > No, method signatures are not checked. The tool just analyzes inter-jar > > dependencies similar to java-propose-classpath within Matthew's > > javahelper package. I find this very useful for packaging more > > complicated java applications. The tool generates a very nice clickable > > HTML-Report with all dependencies and further dependency statistics. See > > the XML-part of README.Debian for an example on how to get the HTML. > One more thought: did you check that the logic is the same between > Matthew's javahelper and your tool? Is code sharing an option? > The worse that could happen to packagers would be different results from > those two tools; I can already imagine the mess... ;-) > Well, neither of them can be used in an automated fashion due to possible clashes in jars, so they are both just hints to the maintainer when originally packaging the software and figuring out the dependencies. I don't think there's a big problem with the two existing together and possibly giving different results. Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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