Steve, Steve Poole said the following on 03/15/11 19:27:
I don't know how much cross-repo changes go on. It would seem that if that is minimal then the next logical step would be to remove the source for the repos you're not working on and just have the binaries instead. Do you see that as a worthwhile goal?
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this but working on different repos we often do just use the "binaries" for other parts. For hotspot for example my build process was the create the new libjvm.so file and simply drop into a JDK. I never needed to build the JDK to do that. I imagine the JDK folks do something similar and just drop an updated rt.jar into an existing JDK, or an updated libjava.so etc. Sometimes when I'm working on JDK changes I'll just use Xbootclasspath to test things out with an existing JDK.
David Holmes
