2009/8/8 Kelly O'Hair <kelly.oh...@sun.com>: > Yeah. I tossed this around in my head, drop seemed short and cute. ;^) > Most if not all the import components are tools used to do the build > but not sources that became part of the product built bits. > > Maybe the IcedTea guys can chime in on this. > > I'm happy to change it to another name that makes more sense. > > -kto > > Jonathan Gibbons wrote: >> >> Well, elsewhere in the JDK build, the name "import" seems to cover the >> same concept >> of inbound stuff from outside the repository. >> >> But, I know you do similar stuff in the FX world, so I wasn't sure if >> "drop" came from there. >> >> -- Jon >> >> Kelly O'Hair wrote: >>> >>> >>> --- >>> >>> The drop name just dropped into my head :^) >>> >>> Do you have a better name for it? >>> >>> -kto >>> >>> Jonathan Gibbons wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Is the "drop" name a standard convention, as compared to, say, "import"? >>>> >>>> -- Jon >>>> >>>> >> >
'drop' sounds fine and makes sense to me at least. On more important matters, if I'm reading this right it does the following as part of the build: #1: Finds a JAXP zip either via ALT_JAXP_SOURCE_BUNDLE or, failing that, downloads one #2: Extracts that bundle #3: Builds the code If that is the case, it sounds a hell of a lot like what IcedTea does with OpenJDK anyway, so I can't see that much of a problem. Is there a bundle available so this can be tested? On the plus side, it would mean we weren't duplicating the JAXP and JAXWS code about thirty times. On the negative side, it makes it even less clear how changes get into these. We no doubt have some local ones already that would be lost by using the bundle (though I think most are build changes to Makefiles like DEBUG_CLASSFILES). I don't think that's a blocker, but there needs to be a clear documented route for getting patches into JAXP and JAXWS just like we get them into the rest of OpenJDK. Any plans to do something similar with CORBA? :) -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
