On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Phil Race <philip.r...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > So your real complaint isn't the failure itself, but that jtreg bothers > to check directories you aren't even running tests from, and > that is a time tax whether such clashes exist or not ? > Seems a reasonable point ... if I'm running a single Image I/O test > jtreg still finds the java/awt clash and that can't be "free". > > That was _one_ of my complaints! I'm also unhappy that jdk9/dev got poisoned by jdk9/client. Having subforests is supposed to prevent that sort of breakage via proper release engineering. I'm _not_ unhappy about the mistake itself - it's a classic software engineering trap we all fall into eventually if we do software long enough.