On 13:52 Wed 12 Oct , Fredrik Öhrström wrote: > 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. >
Yes, same in the IcedTea forest e.g. http://hg.openjdk.java.net/icedtea/jdk7/jaxws/rev/c608b38af726 > > 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. > I still fail to see why such changes would be approved in the first place. It sounds like a software solution is being used to paper over a social one. > //Fredrik -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
