2011/10/12 Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahug...@redhat.com>: > FWIW, I recently did exactly that in IcedTea because I'm sick of all the > problems this drop solution causes. > This has cut things down from needing five tarballs (jaxp + jaxws > repositories + three drop zips) to two with > everything in. Should someone really want to build from the tarballs, they > can just delete the sources.
The sources must be added to the jaxp/jaxws repositores. In fact I have done that already in the build-infra forest. > I don't see why touching the files is a problem; surely all changesets have > to pass review and any that attempt to > alter this files would just not do so? What am I missing? It suppose it is a matter of educating sustaining engineering that fixes to jaxp and jaxws has to go through the upstream repositories. A bit of software to prevent messing this up would help, but is not immediately needed. //Fredrik
