Any thoughts on supporting ToolProvider?

[Andres Almiray]

The Bach build tool[1] makes use of ToolProvider[2] instances to customize builds.

Has the team considered building a binary that provides integration with JaCoCo in this way?

Cheers,

Andres

[1] https://github.com/sormuras/bach/

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/javax/tools/ToolProvider.html

[Marc Hoffmann]

Hi Andres,

good to hear from you!

I quickly checked: They use java.util.spi.ToolProvider from Java 9.

We haven’t considered this, as JaCoCo is compatible with Java 5 runtime. We might move to Java 8 some day, but not to a later version.

Cheers,

-marc

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[Andres Almiray]

Hi Marc,

Oh yeah, I've got the wrong interface. You found the correct one :P

Indeed, a ToolProvider requires JDK9 as a minimum. I understand if JaCoCo does not provide such implementation for the time being.

I guess I'll go ahead and build my own and post it :-)

Cheers,

Andres