On 3/10/2011 3:13 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
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).
Kelly has a get_source.sh script in the top level repo. I haven't used it, but I presume that a
developer without the forest extension just has to do
hg clone <top level repo>
cd jdk7
./get_source.sh
- jjh
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
