My two cents are: I think this is great. To say the least, it has historically been challenging and/or non-standard to build OpenJDK (most especially on Windoze). I think first impressions when building a project are very important. People can become quickly enthused (and stay with it to become a long term contributor) OR they go away and incorrectly assume OpenJDK isn't really open.
--Luss http://openscg.org On 4/24/11, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.oh...@oracle.com> wrote: > > FYI... > > I sent this, but I'm not seeing any record it was received... :^( > > -kto > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Kelly O'Hair <kelly.oh...@oracle.com> >> Date: April 22, 2011 16:49:29 PM PDT >> To: annou...@openjdk.java.net >> Subject: Project Proposal: Build Infrastructure Changes >> Reply-To: disc...@openjdk.java.net >> >> Project Proposal: Build Infrastructure Changes >> In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines for projects [1], I hereby >> propose the OpenJDK Project "Build Infrastructure Changes". >> This Project will be used for developing major changes to the JDK build >> process. >> A list of some of the goals include: >> * Drastically improving the turnaround on full builds >> * Provide a reliable way for incremental builds to work >> * Simplify the makefiles drastically avoiding unnecessary nested makes >> * Allow for parallel building with make -j >> * Allow for 32bit builds to happen on 64bit systems >> * Allow for use of more portable build tools (compilers etc.) where >> possible >> This work will be done in a separate set of repositories. >> I propose this project be sponsored by the Build Group [2] and that I >> be the initial moderator of the project. >> >> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/ >> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/build/ >> >> > >
