Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
I think it is important that a recent stock mercurial install
can check out the full openjdk with a single clone
command.
I.e. you should not have to install special extensions just
to get the source code.
I think this is a reasonable goal as it's probably confusing to folks
today that they need to do seven "hg clone" commands to get everything
(or else they need to go through hoops to get the forest extension
working if they want the convenience of the fclone command). At the same
time, and as Phil mentioned on another thread, I think most people are
working in only one or a small subset of the repositories. If you've got
the disk space then having all the repositories might not be a problem;
the important thing (from a productivity perspective) is to continue to
allow partial builds (meaning building a subset of the repositories and
augmenting that with pre-built bits of the other repositories) and of
course incremental builds within that when working in a specific area.
-Alan
